Adobe Flash Player 9 was previously installed with elevated permissions

I have had to disable flash on our websites in order to make
them useable. Looks like flash 9 was updated yesterday and now pops
up a dialog asking to be reinstalled with admin privs. Considering
no one on aprox 250 machines has admin privs, I am now faced with
the task of spending 15 minutes installing and or upgrading flash
on 250 pcs.
THIS IS NOT ACCEPTABLE. what kind of QA did you do on this
release, because im pretty pissed right now.
I have tried the fix located here: (
http://dontpokebadgers.com/axaa/
) which approves the classID, but this does not seem to work. I am
sure other people must be experiencing this issue. I require you to
perform one of the following actions:
1) Provide a method to disable auto updating the flash active
x control
2) Provide group policy settings that will enable seemless
installation in the background. This would ideally be registry
based and not have anything to do with an MSI file that I would
need to bundle into a startup script.
3) Roll back flash to a working version that does not have
this horrible bug
4) Silently fail to update flash, as the old flash still
renders the content after the error message has been cleared.
Please respond ASAP. I am sure you are about to get a flood
of complaints as you have now changed the default behavior of the
flash player, which unfortunately, much of the internet now
uses.

There already is a method for disabling auto-update, as well
as control over many other options for your users... So this isn't
a bug at all. This is auto-update doing what it's supposed to do.
As the network admin you have to disable it.. Read on...
First, as a network install you should be using the (free)
licensed distribution version of Flash Player. The licensing is
here:
http://www.adobe.com/licensing/
That will get you EXE installers for your network if you want them.
Most importantly it gives you the legal ability to distribute the
player and then control it using the following....
Flash Player Administrator's Guide:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/articles/flash_player_admin_guide.html
Also please keep in mind that these forums are not official
support channels. They're peer-to-peer support. So in the future
please go through
http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer
for needs such as this. We do offer support to network admins
supporting the install...

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