Auto-installing McAfee with Flash? Shame on you, Adobe.

As a longtime Adobe product user (Photoshop 3 through today, After Effects, Premiere and now CC subscriber) I was extremely disappointed and appalled when Adobe Flash Update installed McAfee without asking me. I was so surprised, I went back to reinstall on another machine to see if I had missed a pre-checked box. Guess what - no option to skip the McAfee on this update.
I have seen (and unchecked) the McAfee box in the past. This time, it didn't ask.
This is not how reputable software companies do business Adobe. I expect better form you!
There should never be software that is installed by default, just as "options" that many people avoid for secuirty reasons (like the check box for keep me signed in) should NEVER be checked by default.
If you want to stop developing Flash, or charge for it, fine. But do not place programs on my computer that I did not ask for.
Shame on you, Adobe. Shame on you.

As already pointed out there is nothing we can do here to help you but
if you were after alternatives or what economists call substitute
products then clearly Microsoft is the best. They have almost
everything Adobe has and their products are relatively less expensive
than Adobe's.
Whether you like these alternatives is a different story altogether but
alternatives they are and there are others out there if you look for
them. Search for Open Source products (free products) and you will be
surprised what you get.
Good luck.

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Auto-install updates, with no user interaction?

Due to problems with malware, we can't really trust everyone to be logged on with administrator privileges all the time as it used to be with Windows 2000 and XP. Consequently the installed software can not be modified by staff anymore.
This doesn't affect Windows Updates since those can be configured to install automatically on a schedule without any user interaction or privilege elevation.
Java for Windows however does not detect when a logged in user does not have administrative rights, so it offers updates to everyone who logs on, including people who can not and will not ever be able to install the updates.
One "solution" is to turn off the update checking so that people aren't hassled by useless update notifications, but then this means Windows desktops will gradually fall further and further out of date, opening them up to attack by malware that exploits unpatched bugs in older Java versions.
The proper solution that I really want, is for Java to be capable of auto-update and self-install without any user interaction or privilege elevation at all. However so far I have not found a solution for this.
A hack may be possible using Windows group policy, the Windows Server task scheduler, and a java website screenscraper.
Nightly:
* Screenscrape Java.com for a newer client version
* If new one is found, download, put in global read-access share
* Using a database of machines known to be running Java, flag each candidate that's using an older version
* Wake-on-LAN the machines needing the update
* Schedule a remote install of the update with Administrative privileges
* If update successful, clear flag for that machine in central database
* shut down again for the night.
OR
Java programmers could implement an auto-install mechanism of their own, that can run by itself without user interaction at system startup, shutdown, or on a timed schedule set by the administrator through registry entries (and therefore configurable via group policy applied to desktops).
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How are other network administrators handling managed business desktops that need periodic, automatic, and non-interactive Java updates?

We use Altiris Software Delivery solution to deploy our Java updates but you could also use similar solutions such as Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager.
The problem is that these are both options that cost money and require investment and training.
Altiris allows you to create a collection based on the text string held in the Add/Remove Programs list (as well as other fields) - so you can easily create a collection of computers that do not have the required version of Java.
You can then create a software delivery task to silently install Java with admin rights and target it towards the collection that needs updating.
The collection updates dynamically. As the computers get Java they drop out of the collection and are no longer targetted for upgrade. This used to work well for me - as I could update about 500 machines in about 2-3 days.
The problem is that the Java installer doesn't work consistently as you mentioned since JRE 6u25 - the installer doesn't always behave as expected and the switches to do silent installs keep changing. You also have a problem if you try to update Java and the person has their web browser open... Yes, I do my updates during working hours as well.
In a constantly changing environment in terms of security - you'd think Oracle would have sorted the deployment options out by now?

So I think there should be an app with flash cards that you can fill in your own info with. I'm studying for a test, and how awesome would it be to have my flash cards on my phone!!! Is there already an app like that?

I think there should be a flash card app that let's u put in ur own info. I'm studying for a test and I think it would be really cool to have my flash cards in my phone!! Is there an app like that already?

http://www.appshopper.com/education/flashcards

Shame on you, Adobe

Our experience with Adobe has been extremely negative.
With a rare exception, the reps are very unfriendly; they interrupt in a mid sentence, get rude ( "I am not going to waste my time on this...", etc.)
It took months and dozens of phone conversations to transfer the license from our ex-employee back to the company.
I mean those reps who actually speak the language of this country. When they escalate, you'll usually get someone picking up the phone in India.
This afternoon, after two rude and annoyed people, I got escalated to a tech, who, just simply hung up on me, after I asked the same question twice, since he was saying sheer nonsense. And these are the characters Adobe hires to represent itself?
Wow, shame, and shame again, Adobe.
You are deliberately turning your loyal, and long-running customers away. Well, this is exactly what you'll get.

As already pointed out there is nothing we can do here to help you but
if you were after alternatives or what economists call substitute
products then clearly Microsoft is the best. They have almost
everything Adobe has and their products are relatively less expensive
than Adobe's.
Whether you like these alternatives is a different story altogether but
alternatives they are and there are others out there if you look for
them. Search for Open Source products (free products) and you will be
surprised what you get.
Good luck.

Why is Mcafee included with the Flash update? I don't appreciate unwanted apps auto installing!

Please remove Mcafee from future updates to Flash. If I wanted or needed Mcafee I would have gone to their site to get it. Now I am wasting precious time complaining about it and also uninstalling it.

When asked to download an Adobe Flash Player update today, I did so and started the application.
I saw that it was also downloading McAffe security software - without my approval. I was never asked to install additional software and I aborted the installation process.
This is absolutely abusive behavior and I will not tolerate this kind of behavior from any company, no matter how widespread their product may be.
I will also be contacting McAfee to let them know that I have a much lower opinion of their company than before for being complicit in this behavior.
It is amoral and should be criminal behavior to sneak additional software onto someone's computer like this. Shame on you, Adobe. This is worse than having opt-in boxes for additional products already checked.
I am disgusted and Adobe should be ashamed - but I'm sure that it is not.
The contact for McAfee Corporate Respnsibility is [email protected]
If you are upset about McAfee, or any other company, being complicit in this behavior, please contact that company and let them know.

Any way to upgrade my flash player without installing mcAfee

any way to upgrade my flash player without installing mcAfee ? I dont want any kind of antiv. programs on my pc. I only want to upgrade my player

Thanks.
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Why in the hell is Adobe forcing me to install Mcafee???

As if it were not enough to receive constant flash player updates anouncements, the last one came with a surprise. This time Adobe didn't allow me to choose whether to install mcafee or not (btw shame on you Adobe for making me to have to uncheck that box every time). A pop up window shown up with the download status of both Flash player update and mcafee, and installed it without asking. Why should I have to loose my time having to uninstall mcafee? Why should I have to loose my time having to uncheck that box every other time? How do I know Mcafee has not left anything in my computer after uninstall? I have my own antivirus, so please, just stop annoying your users with that kind of annoying behaviour.
PS: I don't install anything automatically before checking how it was for other users, so save your advices on enable updates automatically.
SHAME ON YOU!
Manuel

Generally this occurs because there's a third-party plug-in that affects how the JavaScript on the page got executed. Ghostery, AdBlock Pro and NoScript are common candidates.
Under normal operating conditions, you should see an opt-out dialog like the one below. While cost-recovery measure are a reality for a product that is tremendously expensive to develop and distribute free of charge, the intent is absolutely to allow you to opt out.
If you want to avoid the download and installation experience for Flash altogether, switch to a browser that includes Flash Player as a built-in component, like Google Chrome or Internet Explorer on Windows 8 and higher.

Insert PDF with Flash into another PDF and it does not display.

When attempting to insert an Adobe Acrobat file with flash elements into another Adobe Acrobat file, the latter will not display the file on screen. Instead it shows this message "For the best experience, open this PDF portfolio in Acrobat X or Adobe Reader X, or later." Please help.

Yes I would have thought so. Adobe Acrobat and Reader have the ability to view flash content items however this is not the case. I will explain step by step what I am doing. I have done this for years before and I have recently formatted my computer and had to reinstall the software.
Here is a little background information:
System:
Windows 7 Professional 64bit
AMD-FX 4100 Quad Core CPU
8GB RAM
250GB free on HDD
Software Installed:
Adobe Acrobat X Pro
Adobe Reader XI
Adobe Flash 17.0.0.134
Microsoft Office Home and Business 2010
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Open Outlook
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Save the new file "toInsert.pdf"
Open "main.pdf" file
Click and drag "toInsert.pdf" file from desktop into the thumbnail area of the "main.pdf" file to insert.
Attached Error. Please advise. Thank you.

Still need help with flash player download

I'm still having a problem with the flash player, please read my last post below:
"I've tried everything here & still can't download the flash player. Anytime I try to download it asks me to install ADM add-on and then when I click on that, my computer freezes. How do I enable this add-on without my computer freezing? Can anyone help pls?"

Thanks a lot for your help, it is truly appreciated.
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:52:38 -0600
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Still need help with flash player download
You can set Flash Player to check for updates on the Global Settings Manager panel:
http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager05.htm l
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Differences between compiling a VC model with Flash or Web Dynpro

Hello forum,
Is there anyone capable of telling me what are the main differences between compiling a Visual Composer model with Flash compiler or Web Dynpro compiler.
I've noticed that some important features aren't available when I use the WD compiler, such as creating a popup directly from the output of a table and I can't install a scroll bar to navigate through the table records (it only allows me to place some navigation buttons in the bottom of the table, and this is not a very user-friendly solution).
If you were me, would you choose the Flash compiler?
By the way, do you know a way to increase the performance of a report created with VC? When I execute the iView on the Netweaver Portal, I see that a iview compiled with Webdynpro consumes less 15MB of memory when running the report than a similar iview compiled with Flash.
Thank you.
Regards,
Ricardo Inácio

I found this old post while searching for something else. The main difference between Flash and Web Dynpro modes is that Flash works and Web Dynpro most emphatically does not. Some of the (many) disadvantages of Web Dynpro mode.
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3. You cannot use the Editing mode = Read-only mode to make all the input fields in a form non-entereable. You can select it in the designer,but at runtime it doesn't take a blind bit of notice. The only way to make a field non-enterable is to check the Disabled box which turns it a very pale and almost invisible grey which looks awful.
4. You can't change the font or colour of texts.
5. Lots of the controls are not available eg the clock.
6. You cannot create toolbars on forms, or rather you can but at runtime it just ignores them.
7. Adding a hyperlink to a pushbutton does not do anything (this is my latest discovery).
All of the above work in Flash mode. We have to use Web Dynpro because we need the screens to work with screen readers for visually impaired viewers, but anyone who does not have this constraint should avoid using it like the plague.

Auto increment number with leading zeros

hello,
i have data column (serial number) that auto generate from script component, i'm using counter +1 and it successful store the number to my db. but the problem is there any idea to store the number to 00001 rather that 1.
im using this method in my script component
dim counter as integer = 0
counter =counter + 1
row.NoSerial = counter
TQ

Why should you send it through the file? WHy not simply create a calculated column based on identity field or sequence based field (if 2012 version and above) in the destination table and ignore it from the file altogether. ANyways its going to be
a sequential auotogenerated value isnt it?
http://www.sqlteam.com/article/custom-auto-generated-sequences-with-sql-server
If you want to bring it as 00001 etc you need to make it as varchar and use derived column expressions in SSIS as source is text file.
I would prefer doing this in sqlserver if its just a sequential number and has no direct relationship to the incoming file data fields.
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HP iPAQ with flash lite compatibility

I'm thinking of purchasing an HP iPAQ for the purpose of
maybe adapting a SWF app to work with this phone/pda device. This
device comes with Windows Mobile 5 For Pocket PC Phone Edition, I
was wondering if anyone knows if this OS is compatible with Flash
Lite. I know that Windows Mobile 5 is, but I wanted ot make sure
the phone edition was as well, the Flash Lite section of this web
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Flash lite 3,0 and 3,1 are based on Flash 8, for most of sites you have to have version 9 or earlier...
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Exporting video with Flash CC

How do I adjust settings to Flash CC for exporting video? A Quicktime video that was once about 50MB from Flash CS6 is now 7GB with Flash CC.

Thank you. However, I see no setting options in Flash Pro CC prior to
creating the video. It's now an odd two-step process to create a Quicktime
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Why does Flash Player install McAfee software?

I installed today Flash on my Windows PC. I opened the installer, chose "Notify me of all updates" and pressed install. The following progress bar showed not only the progress of the Flash installation but also the progress of some McAfee software installation. I couldn't reject it in an way. I had to uninstall it once it finished.
So my question is clear: Why? I don't want McAfee, I should be able to tell the installer "don't install McAfee". What if I had a limited broadband connection (3G, for example)? What if McAfee broke my antivirus installation? Is Adobe or McAfee going to be responsible if anything goes bad because of that bundle installation?
This is terrible user experience. The only thing you've achieved is my bad impression of both business, so I'll purchase/download as little as I can of any of you.
Congratulations.

It's in one or more of the update links. It's been reported, but there isn't a big priority to change it.
Flash Player for ActiveX (Internet Explorer)
Flash Player Plug-in (All other browsers)
Those are FULL installers with nothing bundled.
Bookmark them, because when the version changes, the link stays the same.

Auto install flash player to the client where the flash.exe was located on serve

Good day!
I created an intranet site for the company and it is on the server, so the staff can view it. My webpage consist of flash for the viewing of images. The problem is the client who can view my webpage has no flash installer or totally no flash installed on their computer. Actually I have a flash.exe or flash installer in my server. I want to happen is when they view my webpage there is a pop up message for the auto install of flash installer and once they click automatically the flash would be installed. I mean the location of installer in the server they can catch? Is it possible?
Honestly, I have no idea about it. I have a lot of idea and questions in my mind on how the client can have the installer through pop up or any way.
Thank you

It is definitely not something you can do with Flash Player; especially when the Player is not even installed on the client side.
You will need to do something with Flash or ActionScript, so you better ask in the Flash or ActionScript forum.

Auto-installing McAfee with Flash? Shame on you, Adobe.

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