Expired Security Certificate for Flash Player 10.2.153.1 Install

When I tried to update the Flash Player to the latest release, 10.2.153.1, Adobe tried to download the latest DLM. This is normal. Windows 7 gives the the option to check the publisher's security certificate, which I always do. This time I found that the certificate for Adobe had expired on 3/16/2011. Since today is 3/21/2011, and the fix was made available today, I aborted the install. An expired certificate would be fine if the date the file was signed was in the period the certificate was valid, but there is no way to check that.
What is going on here? Has someone hacked the Adobe servers? Or is this just an "Oops" on the part of Adobe.

Hi, Since that's the latest update that just came out, I haven't had time to check that. Is the certificate for the DLM perhaps?
What about the certificate with the Flash Player you have Installed currently? What does it say?
Thanks,
eidnolb

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Hi, well DLM is Download Manager and sometimes it is used to D/L FP. It is supposed to disconnect after FP is downloaded. Go to Add/Remove, you should see Flash Player 10 ActiveX listed. If the Adobe Download Manager or DLM is listed Remove it from there and reboot. It is not supposed to be there after it serves it purpose.
The version is 10.0.42.34, I hope you just made a typo:-)
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ActiveX......Flash10d.ocx and that it is Enabled. Be sure to check in "currently loaded" and "have been used".
In Firefox you would look in extenstions, add ons or plug-ins, look for SWF.
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What is the recommended action in response to Adobe's 6-4-10 security advisory for Flash Player?

Adobe security advisory: http://www.adobe.com/support/security/advisories/apsa10-01.html
"A critical vulnerability exists in Adobe Flash Player 10.0.45.2 and earlier versions for Windows, Macintosh, Linux and Solaris operating systems..."
Is the Flashblock 1.5.13 addon capable of preventing this vulnerability? I hesitate to install this because of the recent poor user reviews.
Any suggestions or advice are appreciated. Thank you.

Hi Bill.
Flashblock will block Flash objects from running unless you explicitly allow them. I used to use Flashblock but I haven't in quite some time. So, yes, it will do the job. I only see one double-posted bad review for Flashblock. The average rating is still 5 stars.
Instead I use [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/722 NoScript], which blocks Flash, other plugins, and all page scripts unless explicitly allowed by you. It might be overkill to deal with this vulnerability.
You could disable the Flash plugin until you are sure you are on a safe site that needs it, such as YouTube, in Tools -> Add-ons -> Plugins.
You could also try the [http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/ pre-release of Flash 10.1], which, according to Adobe, does not seem to be vulnerable. Make sure to follow instructions to uninstall any previous Flash version before installing 10.1. I have been using it without problems for awhile.
You may be fine as long as you avoid unfamiliar sites. Once a malicious site is reported, Firefox will block it with the built in attack site and phishing site protection.

Regarding security update for Flash Player 9 (Flash Player 9,0,124,0)

We are facing issue in STOMP client because of newly
implemented restriction on flash player.(
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/articles/flash_player9_security_update.html).
Because of this, Our STOMP client is not able to get messages
from activemq.
We have tried to add socket meta files as discussed in others
article but we were not able to get solutions.
We have done below stuffs.
1) Added LoadPolicy code in stompclient for getting
policyfile from server running on 80 port.
2) Also set xmlSocket as load policy to get connection from
stompclient to Activemq.
1) PolicyFile.xml(loading this also in STOMPClient.swf)
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE cross-domain-policy SYSTEM
"/xml/dtds/cross-domain-policy.dtd">

<cross-domain-policy>

<site-control
permitted-cross-domain-policies="master-only"/>


<allow-access-from domain="*" to-ports="*" />
</cross-domain-policy>
2) Flash players logs(using debug version of Flash player)
Error: Request for resource at xmlsocket://192.168.1.12:61613
by requestor from
http://127.0.0.1/blackwells/bid/stompclient.swf
is denied due to lack of policy file permissions.
OK: Root-level SWF loaded:
http://127.0.0.1/blackwells/bid/stompclient.swf
OK: Root-level SWF loaded:
http://127.0.0.1/blackwells/bid/ladyguinn.swf
OK: Searching for <allow-access-from> in policy files
to authorize data loading from resource at
xmlsocket://192.168.1.12:61613 by requestor from
http://127.0.0.1/blackwells/bid/stompclient.swf
OK: Policy file accepted:
http://192.168.1.12/crossdomain.xml
Warning: Timeout on xmlsocket://192.168.1.12:61613 (at 3
seconds) while waiting for socket policy file. This should not
cause any problems, but see
http://www.adobe.com/go/strict_policy_files
for an explanation.
Error: Request for resource at xmlsocket://192.168.1.12:61613
by requestor from
http://127.0.0.1/blackwells/bid/stompclient.swf
is denied due to lack of policy file permissions.
OK: Root-level SWF loaded:
http://mail.google.com/a/sigmainfo.net/im/sound.swf
OK: Root-level SWF loaded:
http://127.0.0.1/blackwells/bid/stompclient.swf
OK: Root-level SWF loaded:
http://127.0.0.1/blackwells/bid/ladyguinn.swf
OK: Root-level SWF loaded:
http://mail.google.com/a/sigmainfo.net/im/sound.swf
OK: Root-level SWF loaded:
http://127.0.0.1/blackwells/bid/stompclient.swf
OK: Root-level SWF loaded:
http://127.0.0.1/blackwells/bid/bill.swf
OK: Searching for <allow-access-from> in policy files
to authorize data loading from resource at
xmlsocket://192.168.1.12:61613 by requestor from
http://127.0.0.1/blackwells/bid/stompclient.swf
OK: Policy file accepted:
http://192.168.1.12/crossdomain.xml
OK: Root-level SWF loaded:
http://127.0.0.1/blackwells/bid/stompclient.swf
OK: Root-level SWF loaded:
http://127.0.0.1/blackwells/bid/bill.swf
OK: Searching for <allow-access-from> in policy files
to authorize data loading from resource at
xmlsocket://192.168.1.12:61613 by requestor from
http://127.0.0.1/blackwells/bid/stompclient.swf
OK: Policy file accepted:
http://192.168.1.12/crossdomain.xml
OK: Root-level SWF loaded:
http://127.0.0.1/blackwells/bid/stompclient.swf
OK: Root-level SWF loaded:
http://127.0.0.1/blackwells/bid/bill.swf
OK: Searching for <allow-access-from> in policy files
to authorize data loading from resource at
xmlsocket://192.168.1.12:61613 by requestor from
http://127.0.0.1/blackwells/bid/stompclient.swf
OK: Policy file accepted:
http://192.168.1.12/crossdomain.xml
Warning: Ignoring <site-control> tag in policy file
from
http://192.168.1.12:843/policyfile.xml.
This tag is only allowed in master policy files.
Warning: Domain 192.168.1.12 does not specify a meta-policy.
Applying default meta-policy 'all'. This configuration is
deprecated. See
http://www.adobe.com/go/strict_policy_files
to fix this problem.
OK: Root-level SWF loaded:
http://192.168.1.12/blackwells/bid/stompclient.swf
OK: Root-level SWF loaded:
http://192.168.1.12/blackwells/bid/ladyguinn.swf
OK: Searching for <allow-access-from> in policy files
to authorize data loading from resource at
xmlsocket://192.168.1.47:61613 by requestor from
http://192.168.1.12/blackwells/bid/stompclient.swf
Warning: [strict] Ignoring policy file at
xmlsocket://192.168.1.47:843 due to incorrect syntax. See
http://www.adobe.com/go/strict_policy_files
to fix this problem.
Warning: Timeout on xmlsocket://192.168.1.47:61613 (at 3
seconds) while waiting for socket policy file. This should not
cause any problems, but see
http://www.adobe.com/go/strict_policy_files
for an explanation.
Error: Request for resource at xmlsocket://192.168.1.47:61613
by requestor from
http://192.168.1.12/blackwells/bid/stompclient.swf
is denied due to lack of policy file permissions.
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flash.system.Security.loadPolicyFile("
http://" + server + "/crossdomain.xml");
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http://" + server + "/policyfile.xml");
flash.system.Security.loadPolicyFile("xmlsocket://" + server
+ ":"+port);
4) we have also changed crossdomain.xml (this is using Schema
instead of DTD as <site-control > is not there in DTD)
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<cross-domain-policy xmlns:xsi="
http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="
http://www.adobe.com/xml/schemas/PolicyFile.xsd">
<allow-access-from domain="*" />
<site-control
permitted-cross-domain-policies="master-only"/>
</cross-domain-policy>

You're welcome!
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Help for Flash player that will not install

Flash player won't install on Dell with Mozilla Firefox version 33.0 for Yahoo 1.32. It does not matter what I try or even if I delete all old flash player files, folders etc. The download goes as far as the black box where it should be installing and just freezes there. I have pretty much tried everything to get it t0 install, including your troubleshooter. I also checked on Firefox and there is no available plug in download for the flash player. I even uninstalled and reinstalled Firefox and that will still not work. I tried to download using just Internet Explore 11 and that wont work either. It saves the file and I can make it run, but it goes directly to the black box fr Adobe flash player installation and is blank and will not go any further. help please!!!

Hi
I read your post about having difficulty downloading flash player 10 but that you also were able to fix the problem. I use IE8 and my operating system is XP Professional SP3. I'm hoping that you can answer a question for me.
In the troubleshooting tip issued by Adobe one of the things to do was to check my sercuity program. I use Norton and currently Adobe Flash player isn't in the list of allowed programs under my internet settings. My question is, would it be ok to drop the executable file of the Flash Player that is currently on my desk top, drop it into the programs file? There is a folder with all of the other Adobe programs in it because then I could select and add to the allowed programs in my Norton.
I hope someone can answer this for me.
thanks,
Ellen

Work around for Flash Player 9/SMS 2003 install issues?

All,
As has been stated here previously, there appears to be an
issue which prevents the installation of Flash Player 9.0.16.0 when
pushed from SMS to a system which has a standard user logged in,
even when using a Domain Admin installation account. As long as the
user has Admin rights, or there is no user logged on, the install
goes smoothly.
I work in a partial retail environment, and all of our retail
machines are rebooted nightly via a sheduled task. So, naturally
when I was tasked with pushing Flash Player to these mahcines, and
found the above issue, I simply only allowed the program to kick
off when no user was logged on. Thus, when each machine reboots and
sits at ctrl+alt+del at 3AM, viola, the install kicks off, Flash
installs, and everyone's happy.
I now have to push Flash Player 9 to the rest of my company,
with no guarantee that many machines will ever sit for any
appreciable time logged off. In fact, the only time most of them
reboot is when we force them to after Windows Updates each month.
=op
Has anyone found a fix for this issue? I'd really love to be
able to advertise Flash Player and let the user install from
Add/Remove Programs at their leisure.
Thanks in advance!
Bill

I was having the exact same problems - uninstalled/installed
Flash and Shockwave. Used the appropriate uninstaller, searched for
rogue .dll extension files, cleaned out the
C:\Windows\System32\Macromedia\Flash files, looked at the manage
add-ons, posted on this forum, e-mailed Adobe, spoke with them on
the phone and even uninstalled IE7 and went back to IE 6. None of
that helped.
Reading through some of the responses on various posts, I
found the following:
Uninstall flash with the latest Adobe stand alone uninstaller
Download Complete Standalone installer Flash Player 9 earlier
version from
http://www.softwarepatch.com/internet/flash.html
Uninstall shockwave with the latest Adobe stand alone
uninstaller
Download Stand-alone installers for Shockwave Player:
previous versions only
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Note: Users of Windows XP operating system must use the 8.5.1
Shockwave player or higher. For more information, please
seeInstalling the Shockwave Player on Microsoft Windows XP
(TechNote tn_15924).
Windows Shockwave Player 9.0.0.434
I tried this last night - one and then the other one - and
they both are running fine.

Hi, i'm a new member of this community. I've recently learn about flashback malware and other threats to Mac devices. I've installed the new Mac OS X update for Lion 10.7, and the flashback removal tool. what about the update for Flash Player?

Hi,
i'm a new member of this community. I've recently learn about flashback malware and other threats to Mac devices. I've installed the new Mac OS X update for Lion 10.7, and the flashback removal tool. What about the update for Flash Player? Should i install it? Otherwise, should i permanently remove this app?
I realy need some advice.
Thank's to all.

Be sure to install the latest version of Safari (version 5.1.7) which is available via Software Update (in the Apple menu) if you have not already installed it. This update will automatically disable older versions of Flash when new versions are available, and will instruct you on how to install the latest version on your system. This should help keep your system safe from any vulnerabilities in Flash.
Note that this is only useful if you use Safari, though other browsers have their own update mechanisms you should research and enable or configure to your liking.

How Can I Get the FULL Installer for Flash Player 11.1.102.63?

When I try the "Download now" button at http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/, I only get a stub installer that then requires downloading the remainder of the installer. I maintain both my own PC and my wife's PC. I want to install Flash Player 11.1.102.63 twice but download it only once.
When I instead try the link for "Flash Player for other browsers" under "Windows 32-bit", I get the full installer for Flash Player 11.1.102.62, not the full installer for Flash Player 11.1.102.63.
The latest version of Adobe Reader is available via FTP at ftp.adobe.com. Why cannot the latest version of Flash Player also be available there?

at http://forums.adobe.com/thread/889580 the link for downloading "flash player 10", "for other browsers", still results in the OLD version of FP 10 being downloaded, not the newly updated version, build 10.3.183.16..
in adobe's security bulletins, it says that you can download the updated versions of "flash player 10" on the "archives" webpage but there are no direct downloads for FP 10 on the webpage, except for downloading the zipped packages, with the "debuggers".. it would be good if there were direct downloads for the updated versions of FP 10..
also, when i go to the "download center" page, http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/?promoid=BUIGP , if i go there with "firefox 3.6", it recognizes that i am running "firefox 3.6" and offers to install "flash player 10.3", but if i go there with "internet explorer 6", it is not recognized and so i am not offered "flash player 10.3", for installing.. in this situation, i need some other way to get "flash player 10.3" for "internet explorer 6"..
adobe should make things easier for everyone by providing direct downloads for flash player..in my case, i use "flash player 10", so i need direct downloads for it.. yes, it is nice that the downloads are posted in the forum, but why not do it right and have in on some webpage, like on the "archives" webpage where adobe says that "flash player 10" can be downloaded, except that there are no links there for downloading it..

How to delete an expired security certificate?

Each time I open a fresh Firefox page, I get a message popping up 4 times informing me that a security certificate for a cashback set-up that no longer exists, has expired. How do I get rid of it?

Thank you for taking the time to reply. Alas, I have tried restarting Firefox but can find no "Safe Mode" in the menu at the top of the screen. My Firefox is old, having come out of Noah's Ark all of 4 years ago, an eternity for the weirdos that design these things. (Version 13 something). So the problem is still there. Not that it means much, as all I have to do is click on each of the four or five irritating messages that pop up each time I start the bloody thing. And anyway, as Firefox has decided to stop "supporting" my version, I'll soon have to find a navigator that I can still use. Or buy a new Macintosh, which I'm certainly not prepared to do; planned obsolescence has its limits.

Vista download issues for Flash player 10

I am running Vista on my desk top and did have Flash Player 10 installed and working fine. It suddenly stopped working and I followed Adobe's trouble shooting guide. That is I used the patch that was provided to uninstall, set the internet security options as instructed, downloaded/installed Flash Player 10 and then used the additional patch for Vista. Flash Player did not work after doing this and a search of my system did not return anything for Flash Player other than the two patches that I had used in the download process indicating that it did not instlall. I have tried several more times to resolve the issue but Adobe just keeps me going through it's endless trouble shooting loop. I still am unable to utilize anything that requires Flash Player since it appears that I am unable to install it. Can anyone help with this problem?

Thanks. Go up to Help and click on About Internet Explorer and if you see x86 then you are using the 32bit browser.
This is the default and you want to be sure you use that when Installing Flash Player.
It is best to turn off any pop up blocker when Installing FP.
Now I don't know if BitDefender is causing problems with IE/FP or not. But not too long ago, it was certainly causing a major problem with Firefox and Flash Player.
At this point you may want to go to C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Macromed\Flash Right click on the Flash folder and post back all files listed there.
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If anything different I need to know that also.
Post the Flash files and the add on info back.
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Does Adobe still release updates for Flash Player 10?

Our users are currently on XP and are using Adobe Flash Player 10.3.183.18.
Does Adobe still release updates for version 10 or do we have to go to 11 to be up to date security-wise?

The latest update for Flash Player 10.x is 10.3.183.20; you can obtain the installers from http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/distribution3.html
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Expired security certificates and crashing Safari?

Help! As of a couple of weeks ago, I began receiving the error code "Expired Security Certificate" in Yahoo! mail when trying to Compose a new email. I was able to send email from my Gmail account, and have had to rely on that. Now, I cannot even send from Gmail - it causes Safair to crash. I continue to get the Security warning on Yahoo! I searched online for fixes, including looking in Utilities and the key folder. I see the problem keys, but "repair" does not fix them. The Yahoo! one is dated "Saturday, April 15, 2013" which is obviously incorrect, as today, is Monday, April 15, 2013.
My Safari is also beginning to randomly crash. I just ran updates, but it didn't see to help.

It could mean a lot of things. Basically, the SSL certificate is there to:
1) Encrypt information between you and the site
2) Provide you with a "statement of trust" of sorts from the CA saying that this server is, in fact, run by "Company XYZ". In this case, your bank.
Certificates expire and must be renewed, so it's entirely possible your bank forgot to renew their certificate. It's also possible that it's not an authentic certificate and the system has been hijacked by some malicious person. The traffic you send to the server will still be encrypted, but it may get sent to somebody other than your bank if the site was hijacked in some way.
It'd probably be best to contact your bank and ask them about it. That way you should be able to get a definitive answer straight from them. If the certificate is correct and verified, just expired, it will still work just fine. I wouldn't log in to the site until you've checked with them, though.

Why ship Google Chrome with security updates to Flash Player

I do not want it, I will not install it, it wastes time downloading. Stop sending it to me.

I remember the European Competition authorities made a judgement against Microsoft for only shipping Internet Explorer with Windows. How can you only ship the Chrome option with Adobe updates, why do you not give users the option to download other browsers?
Regards
Chris Fearn
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2012 19:32:33 -0700
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Why ship Google Chrome with security updates to Flash Player
    Re: Why ship Google Chrome with security updates to Flash Player
    created by Chris Campbell in Installing Flash Player - View the full discussion
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Dropping development for Flash Player on mobiles entirely?

"Even though Adobe just mentioned it was planning to invest further in HTML5 after restructuring, a rumor from ZDNet suggests the changes could go even further by dropping development for Flash Player on mobiles entirely. According to an email reportedly received by the company's partners, its future work on Flash for cellphones and tablets will focus on enabling developers to "package apps with Adobe AIR for all the major app stores." After years of battling with Apple and Steve Jobs over the place of Flash on mobiles it appears the company is ready to lay down its sword, with existing platforms like Android receiving only security updates going forward. If the rumors are true, we'll probably hear an official announcement later today, along with a few huge belly laughs from the folks in Cupertino."
this info from Engadget.

Confirmed
Flash to Focus on PC Browsing and Mobile Apps; Adobe to More Aggressively Contribute to HTML5
Posted by Danny Winokur, Vice President & General Manager, Interactive Development at Adobe in Business Professionals, Creative Professionals, Developers, Video
Adobe is all about enabling designers and developers to create the most expressive content possible, regardless of platform or technology. For more than a decade, Flash has enabled the richest content to be created and deployed on the web by reaching beyond what browsers could do. It has repeatedly served as a blueprint for standardizing new technologies in HTML. Over the past two years, we’ve delivered Flash Player for mobile browsers and brought the full expressiveness of the web to many mobile devices.
However, HTML5 is now universally supported on major mobile devices, in some cases exclusively. This makes HTML5 the best solution for creating and deploying content in the browser across mobile platforms. We are excited about this, and will continue our work with key players in the HTML community, including Google, Apple, Microsoft and RIM, to drive HTML5 innovation they can use to advance their mobile browsers.
Our future work with Flash on mobile devices will be focused on enabling Flash developers to package native apps with Adobe AIR for all the major app stores. We will no longer continue to develop Flash Player in the browser to work with new mobile device configurations (chipset, browser, OS version, etc.) following the upcoming release of Flash Player 11.1 for Android and BlackBerry PlayBook. We will of course continue to provide critical bug fixes and security updates for existing device configurations. We will also allow our source code licensees to continue working on and release their own implementations.
These changes will allow us to increase investment in HTML5 and innovate with Flash where it can have most impact for the industry, including advanced gaming and premium video. Flash Player 11 for PC browsers just introduced dozens of new features, including hardware accelerated 3D graphics for console-quality gaming and premium HD video with content protection. Flash developers can take advantage of these features, and all that our Flash tooling has to offer, to reach more than a billion PCs through their browsers and to package native apps with AIR that run on hundreds of millions of mobile devices through all the popular app stores, including the iTunes App Store, Android Market, Amazon Appstore for Android and BlackBerry App World.
We are already working on Flash Player 12 and a new round of exciting features which we expect to again advance what is possible for delivering high definition entertainment experiences. We will continue to leverage our experience with Flash to accelerate our work with the W3C and WebKit to bring similar capabilities to HTML5 as quickly as possible, just as we have done with CSS Shaders. And, we will design new features in Flash for a smooth transition to HTML5 as the standards evolve so developers can confidently invest knowing their skills will continue to be leveraged.
We are super excited about the next generations of HTML5 and Flash. Together they offer developers and content publishers great options for delivering compelling web and application experiences across PCs and devices. There is already amazing work being done that is pushing the newest boundaries, and we can’t wait to see what is still yet to come!

"the activex control for flash player could not be registered" - Solutions Roundup

I recently ran into this problem on my computer:
http://at32.s3.amazonaws.com/flash_install_problems2.jpg
I am a Flash developer (as in I write SWFs, I don't work for Adobe). and when I updated IE to 10.2, "the activex control for flash player could not be registered". Since I am a developer, I also have Firefox and Chrome installed, with Flash running without problems. For a long time now, Internet Explorer has used a different version (ActiveX) to the other browsers, which use plugins. I am a strong supporter of Flash, it's great to develop with and has a very wide feature set which is growing all the time, unlike fixed technologies/standards. However, the weakest part is the install process - I don't understand why their is a Download Manager. Google Chrome does it's best (so far) by managing the install/update process entirely in the background. Anyway, it was in my best interest to try and get to the bottom of this.
For the record, on the problem machine I have Windows 7 with IE8, but I have seen almost identical symptoms with IE9, Windows XP SP3, as well as various iterations of Flash Player (10.0, 10.1, 10.2 and even some final editions of version 9).
First I tried the standard support here:
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/191/tn_19166.html
Basically, doing the manual uninstall and manual install of the latest version (without using the download manager, or have IE open). This did not work. I also tried the Microsoft "subinacl" program, together with "reset_fp10.bat". This didn't work either. However, you should try all of these things first before progressing further.
A quick note about people who had tried running the following at a command prompt: "secedit /configure /cfg %windir%\repair\secsetup.inf /db secsetup.sdb /verbose"
I didn't do this, because on investigating further it didn't seem to work with Windows 7, only Windows XP, Windows 2000 or Windows 2003 - though there was a few threads where this had fixed the problem for some users.
For my solution, it is recommended you use the manual uninstall / installers, so you should have them downloaded ready to use.
I then heard about problems with permissions in the registry with the key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Classes\shockwaveflash.shockwave
So I opened regedit.exe (start - run - typed "regedit.exe"), navigated to the key and sure enough, I couldn't open it - permission denied - even though I had an administrator account. If for some reason, you can access this key (and any subkeys), then it's likely the following fix will not resolve the problem.
I then done further diagnosis, by using Process Monitor to try and install Flash Player, and I got the following:
http://at32.s3.amazonaws.com/flash_install_problems.gif
This shows all the access denied errors the Flash Player install was experiencing when trying to write to the registry key. This confirmed that this was the problem. I only stress this because several people said it was unwise to tinker with the registry. Though this is common advice, this is the only known fix for this precise problem at present, since you need to manually adjust the permissions yourself. I don't know who is at fault here - Microsoft or Adobe - but let's just get Flash fixed...
The solution:
Firstly, you may want to backup your registry, or the exact key. I didn't do this so I've provided no instructions on how to, but it is recommended for the paranoid. Also make sure as much software is closed down as possible - browsers, IM software, any junk in your system tray. As way of example, I happened to have "BBC iPlayer" installed and running in the background which uses Adobe AIR and Flash Player, so I exited that too.
1) Open regedit (start - run - type "regedit.exe"). You may need to right click on it and select "Run As Administrator", but I didn't as my account was already administrator.
2) Navigate to the key. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Classes\shockwaveflash.shockwave
Click on it to confirm that you cannot access it (you will get an error) - if their are no problems - this probably isn't the cause of your issues.
3) Right click on it and click Permissions, and ignore any message that may pop up.
4) Under "Group or Usernames" click "Add". Type your account name name, or "Administrators" in the box, then "Check Names" to format it correctly, then Ok.
5) Now on the next screen click the checkbox to enable Full Control (this will also automatically enable "Read" permission too).
6) Click Advanced, then the "Owner" tab at the top. You will see that their is no "Current Owner". This is what we will now fix.
7) Click on your name to change the owner to (I went for Administrators). Also enable the checkbox entitled "Replace Owner on subcontainers and objects". Then click Ok. You will get an error message, which you can try clicking Retry to, but hit Cancel - this is not a problem.
8) Click Ok a couple of times and this part of your registry is now fixed.
9) Now it's a simple case of running the manual Flash uninstall program, then finally the manual Flash installer (for Active X - not the Firefox/Chrome plugin versions). To my surprise, after a couple of days looking into this - I finally had a solution and Flash in IE once more. If you are using Firefox too you may find Flash is no longer installed their (the uninstaller removed it). In this case just install via the Adobe site or try to watch a video on You Tube and you will be prompted or linked to the install.
Hope this provides a good round up of the possible solutions to this problem. Hopefully Microsoft or Adobe can find out what causes this issue in the first place so we don't have to go down this route for much longer. Chrome's implementation of Flash shows how effortlessly things can work!

They will stay on the screen. However, Process Monitor is only intended for advanced users. It is recommended that users try to navigate to the troublesome registry key using regedit, and see if they can access it or not without an error. This is far easier than trying to use Process Monitor, which is very complicated.
I used Process Monitor to confirm that it was just that key which was causing the problem, and not others. Process Monitor is not to be confused with the new Resource Monitor which is accessible via Task Manager in Windows 7 (and possibly Vista). If you must experiment (and Process Monitor is very useful for diagnosing many deep-level problems if you know what you're looking for) Process Monitor can be downloaded from here:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645
It replaces the older Sysinternals "FileMon" and "RegMon". For those interested in the technical side, I had to setup a number of filters to be able to get the results display as in the screenshot. First of all to just show Registry events. Then to just show events from the manual Flash activeX installer executable. The I added a filter to show only non-successfull results. And finally, for the purposes of the screenshot, added a filter to just show those with "Access Denied", since other non-critical errors are also picked up due to missing keys because installation has not yet been fully completed I guess. When experimenting, most of these filters were applied using the "is not" boolean logic, which will make sense if you experiment with the program.
Without adding any filters, it picks up so many events (hundreds per second) that it's otherwise unusable. e.g. 40,000 events within the first few seconds of opening the program. For this reason, I recommend simply using Regedit to diagnose the problem with the particular Flash registry key.

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