Flash Player refuses to run, if outdated. Can I change this setting?

I work in a video production environment -- tonight we ran into a problem where a couple of live monitoring systems were not working because Flash refused to run; presumably, because it's out of date.   In this case, the systems are "Deep Frozen" (locked down, essentially).
While I think I understand the underlying reasoning for this, it's highly disruptive.    Is there a way we can change Flash Player so it doesn't refuse to run if it's outdated?
These systems are on OSX Yosemite. It's possible it's not just a Flash Player setting, but a browser setting -- still trying to track this down.
Tips, pointers would be appreciated!
Thank you.

Yeah, that makes sense. Faronics is really into buzzwords. It was hard to cut through the marketing-speak to figure out what they were actually doing.
The plug-in blocking technology on Mac is called xprotect. You can disable it, which might make sense in your use-case, but it's typically a really bad idea for the average end-user.
sudo mkdir /System/Library/Launchdaemons/Disabled
sudo mv /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.xprotectupdater.plist /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/Disabled/com.apple.xprotectupdater.plist
sudo /usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "Delete:JavaWebComponentVersionMinimum" /System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Resources/XProtect.meta.plist
I'm guessing that these files are mutable on the system and not part of the persistent snapshot, or I imagine that the blocking would have went away after a reboot. I'm thinking that you can probably disable these and update the relevant snapshots to ensure that you're not picking up new xprotect blacklists in the field.
If you're just hitting the same set of consistent local IPs for your monitoring backend, it might make more sense to preconfigure them in Safari as always allowed vs. wholesale disabling xprotect.
Hopefully that's helpful.

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> Hello,
>
> Ever since I changed over to a MAC OS X running Flash
CS3, I've been
> running
> into problems. One of the problems that I'm facing is
when I publish my
> fla
> file within Flash and view the HTML, it views ok. But
when I upload my swf
> and
> html to my server my swf doesn't play and I receive a
browser message:
>
> A script in this movie is causing Adobe Flash Player 9
to run slowly. If
> it
> continues to run, your computer may become unresponsive.
Do you want to
> abort
> the script?
>
> My publish settings for my fla is:
> Version: Flash Player 8 (even if I change this version
to Flash Player 9 I
> still get the browser message.
> Load order: Bottom up
> ActionScript version: Actionscript 2.0
>
> And I've also tried embedding the swf in Dreamweaver CS3
but I still
> receive
> the browser message. In the first frame of my fla file,
I do have #include
> "script.as" and there are no errors in this script.as
file. I initially
> created
> this fla on a PC using Flash 8 and now on Flash CS3 my
thumbnail images
> don't
> show.
>
> Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?
>
> Thanks so much!
>
>

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