Flash10a.ocx problem, causes IE to Close. HELP!

Question

I have been getting this message frequently:
Internet Explorer has experienced a problem with an add-on
and needs to close.
The following add-on was running when this problem occurred:
Add-on Name: Flash10a.ocx
Company Name: Adobe Systems Incorporated
Description: Adobe Flash Player
The message pops up, and it then closes and restarts Internet
Explorer.
What is causing this, and how can I fix it?
Thanks so much!

Answer 1

Let's see now..."Internet Explorer has encountered a problem
with an add-on and needs to close..." for "Flash10a.ocx". This
occurs on Windows 2000, Windows XP SP1, SP2, SP3, can't confirm
Vista, but others do here as well and on IE6, IE7 and IE8 and not
on Firefox and ver9 caused no such issues.
Ver10 included very important security updates...apparently
designed to crash your system(s) and cause your company money in
wasted IT time. No comment or fix at all in over 3-months now.
I plan to talk to IT at my company and see about reverting
all systems to 9.x and/or blocking all flash related content at the
hardware firewall level as we do Bittorrent and other crap. Let's
see how they react when their partners are informed that over
20,000 people can no longer see their advertisements and if we can
get it to cascade to other companies and if they fix it before
their customers lynch them for eliminating or pissing off their
customers customers or target audience.
Never thought I'd see the day when Adobe is so lazy and
sloppy and insensitive that they make M$ look like a saint.
Unrelated I am also sick of their stupid Adobe Reader eating up
tons memory and crashing itself or the system...on a 4GB
workstation (3GB available). Do you guys have any programmers left
that know anything or did you outsource them are are partying on an
island with AIG execs?
Fix it or prepare to feel it in your bottom line...I've had
it with you lazy software companies that for upgrades that cause
more issues than they resolve!
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UPDATE: Apparently Flash10b aka Flash Player 10.0.22.87 was
released on Feb24, 2009 to pretty quiet fanfare...if you look
closely you will find it VERY hard to see any mention of actual
FIXES besides critical security enhancement...until you dig deeper
and find the actual change log which lists
The following issues have been fixed in Flash Player
10.0.22.87:
• Flash Player 10 crashes in IE7 due to the use of a
dynamic TextField as a mask on another display object when the
field set to anti-alias for readability. (FP-1238/2256938)
• A sound stream error #2032 will cause the playback of
a separate stream to stop playback. (FP-910/2251944)
• Japanese text mojibake (garbled) at Input Text in
Flash 5 swf. (2223727)
• Ming created file does not play in Flash Player 10 in
any browser. (FP-769/2217038)
• FileReference.save() can save invalid Windows
filename like "sticky." so users are never able to delete.
(2202963)
• Setting bitmap width/height before super() crashes
player. (FP-760/2216975)
• Audio is scratchy with static/streamed with sample
rate greater than 44kHz. (FP-862/2216961)
• Seeking H264 video on the first few frames causes IE
to crash. (FP-913/2216957)
• Fullscreen in Flash Player 10 hangs with Flex 3
horizontal slider. (FP-812/2216948)
• Matrix3D AS3 class implementation is difficult to use
for general math. (2216936)
• The Origin header should be put on the banned headers
list. (2202975)
• Using drawingAPI2 in certain conditions when the
Shape is not yet on the displayList can crash. (FP-761/2202966)
• Adding 2 vectors with float4 input and output
produces incorrect result. (2202964)
• Attempting to install to a non-C:\ drive results in
'lack of disk space' error. (2202957)
• Fix AS APIs' inconsistent handling of NaN parameters
on different platforms. (FP-612,FP-903, FP-964/2200454)
• SampleDataEvent playback in IE7 window crashes
browser when new Flash window displayed. (FP-985/1935068)
• When receiving multiple speex audio streams, audio
may be garbled. (1934243)
• When the end of a video is reached at certain
websites, IE crashes instead of showing the next frame.
(FP-1123/1932362)
• UIA mistakenly over-enforced in previous release.
(2262898)
• Japanese characters are mojibake when they are
entered into an input text filed on the Mac Player. (FP-40/2269305)
Yes I'm sure 6 IE related Crash fixes are all "security"
related;) Geez...you guys must also think we are only in a minor
economic downturn too. The supidiest thing is that if you go here
for support:
http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/
It IRONICALLY claims that, "SUPPORT ALERT Do you have
problems installing or running Adobe® Flash® Player for
Internet Explorer? Most of these problems can be attributed to
Windows Registry permission issues. See our technical documents on
Flash Player and Windows Registry permission errors."
REALLY...REALLY?!?
Is that why sys admin and hackers (original
definition...computer whiz types) gave detailed issues on
IE6/IE7/IE8 conflicts everywhere including here many times and then
suddenly you sneak in 6-IE related fixes and add such a silly claim
to your support page. Look at the forum message here for some
reality check and PLEASE stop having MARKETING or THE LAWYERS write
all you documentation. Most of us just want stuff fixed and to know
when stuff has bee addressed or fixed....OK!
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm?forumid=44&catid=184&threadid =1401765&enterthread=y