Possible Virus, duped copy of Flash Player?

When I was browsing on www.imgur.com the browser window went white and a small window popped up telling me that I needed to update my flash player. There was no way to close the window, and whether I close the pop up or click on update it takes me to the following page:
To prewarn you, when you open this link a file called setup.exe will automatically download
http://downloads.stazva.com/FPlayer/UK/auload.html?installer=Flash_Player_13_for_Other_Bro wsers&browser_type=KHTML&dualoffer=false
Clearly this website is intended to look like your own install site, and has the link to McAfee security too, but I don't believe this is the official Adobe flash player. While it says I can check the adobe terms and conditions once again clicking this downloads setup.exe
I ran Kaspersky antivirus and it found a number of problem files, though had no issue with the setup.exe file itself.
Can anyone help me as to whether I'm being too suspicious, or affirm my fears that this is some kind of virus?

Do not download Flash Player updates from anywhere else than adobe.com or macromedia.com websites!  Check your system for malware.
Here are some useful direct download links:
Flash Player for ActiveX (Internet Explorer)
Flash Player Plug-in (All other browsers)

Similar Messages

  • Is there a virus connected to a flash player update?

    two weeks ago I downloaded an update to flash player.  after that i started getting the blue screen of death and it would shut off IE.  I took it too a repair shop and they said I needed a new hard drive.  I had one installed and all my files copied over.  Got it home and started getting the blue screen of death again.  Ran Norton and another virus check and it said there were virus if a few programs and finally it locked up the computer.  Last week i had my desk top and i also updated the flash player and with in 20 minutes after got the blue screen of death on it.  I ran my Mirco Tred Titamium anti virus and it locked up the screen, would not let me uninstall it or any thing. so needless to say both are in the shop getting their memorys erased so I can start over.  Is there a virus sneaking in with the flash player that the anti virus programs are not catching??

    Norton is a nasty business; I have experienced this myself a few years ago.  If you try to start your computer with their expired software, they will crash it HARD!
    Regarding Flash Player, try a clean install by following these instructions: http://forums.adobe.com/thread/928315
    then download the appropriate offline installer from http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/installation-problems-flash-player-windows.html#Ins tall_in_a_firewall_proxy_server_environment
    In the futute there will be no more need to download updates; Flash Player will be silently update in the background.

  • Possible fixes to install/update Flash Player in IE 9

    OK just spent a couple of hours attempting to get IE 9 (32-bit) to install Flash 10.2.153.1. Tried all the troubleshooting advice - turned off security, etc.
    Problem: When clicked on download button, the download page would come up but nothing happened.
    Solution: Discovered setting in IE 9 called "Active X Filtering". It's located in the Tools Menu/Saftey section. If it has a check mark, un-check it and try Flash install again. This solved my problem - hope it helps others.
    FYI - I'm running Win7 64-bit OS. After also unchecking "ActiveX Filtering" in IE 9 (64-bit), the 64-bit Flash Player preview "Square" could also be downloaded and installed.
    If nothing else works try the MANUAL INSTALLER located at:
    Flash Player 10 ActiveX (Internet Explorer 32-bit) http://fpdownload.adobe.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player_ax.exe
    Flash Player 10 Plugin (All other Windows browsers, such as Firefox or Google Chrome) http://fpdownload.adobe.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player.exe
    Have a good day.

    Hi, Thanks for your input. Just to add a bit of info, when Win7 came out with the SP1, this was included with that also. Whether this is turned on by default I haven't heard.
    I agree on the Manual Uninstall/Install also. Now Google Chrome is embedded with Flash Player and updates on it's own.
    Glad you figured it all out:-)
    eidnolb
    Message was edited by: eidnolb

  • Numerous problems that seem to involve Adobe Flash have been plaguing me and no suggestions in your forum, including downloading a new copy of Flash player, have been the slightest bit helpful to me.

    Flash player has always been a terrible problem for me. Not being a computer programmer, I have no idea what is happening or why it is happening. I can find no information that is of any help whatsoever on this subject. I am using Firefox 3.6.9 and have attempted to use Flash Player 10.1. My computer is a Mac with the 10.4.11 operating system.

    Even though it says "Updating Flash", go to the link in the article below to download the Flash installer:<br />
    https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Managing+the+Flash+plugin#Updating_Flash

  • I cannot download/install AVG virus protection and Adobe Flash Player and both seem related to Firefox

    The free version of AVG goes through most of the installation, then stops, says there is a problem and I should look at Firefox security bar at top of page, which I never find.
    Trying to download/install Flash Player, pretty much the same frustration, time after time.

    Close Firefox before running the Flash installer - that's Adobe's rules for installing the Plugin version of Flash.

  • Is it possible for me to get Flash Player on my iPad 3?

    Thanks for any help

    No Flash for iPads, iPhones, or iPods
    Here's why there's is no Flash available for iDevices or other mobile devices. Adobe was unable to provide a product that was suitable to the needs of battery powered mobile devices used for Internet browsing. Existing Flash technology used too much memory, ate battery life, and was buggy. Simply put Flash did not work well on mobile devices.
    Apple's Steve Jobs led the escape from Flash dependency when Apple introduced the iPhone, and later introduced the iPad. There was a hue and cry over the omission. Time proved Jobs was right on target.
    So this is why there is no Flash for your iPhone or iPad or iPod nor for most SmartPhones. Flash has been abandoned by many sites in favor of supported technologies such as HTML5 or by providing their own custom app.
    Here is Steve Jobs official comment on his momentous decision to omit Flash from iDevices: Steve Jobs on Flash.
    Here is Adobe's later announcement to cease development of Flash for mobile devices: Adobe on Mobile Flash. Adobe is not providing Flash for Apple iOS devices, and they no longer provide Flash for any other cellular phones. Flash is officially gone.
    Now, you are not necessarily out on a limb. There are some apps that can display some Flash, but don't count on there ability to display anything using Flash.
    A sample of Apps that can display some Flash content:
      1. Puffin
      2. SkyFire
      3. Photon Flash
      4. Browse2Go
      5. Swifter
    Also, note that many sites that use Flash provide their own app for accessing their material. So check with your favorite sites and find out if "there's an app for that."
    Download the Facebook app from the iTunes Store. Sign in with your Facebook ID and Password and you won't require flash to play videos.

  • Installing Flash Player 11 but AV is noticing a virus.

    I have tried to install the new flash player twice now and both times my Webroot AV tells me there if a virus associated when I am in the middle of installing.     
    c:\users\xxxxxxx\appdata\local\temp\3b5a.tmp
    c:\users\xxxxxxx\appdata\local\temp\e33c.tmp
    I have had rogue viruses before from installing flash player or java from the correct associated website. Why is this? Is instaling the new flash player really a threat?

    Most likely your AV definitions are outdated.
    Also, try the full installer(s) from http://forums.adobe.com/thread/909550

  • HT4993 How do you view items that use flash player? Is it possible? Please & thank you

    How doyou view items that use flash player with an Iphone 4S. Is it possible?

    There is no Flash Player for iOS. Browsers on the App Store like Photon have flash capabilities.

  • Is there an archive page for Flash Player plugins for PORTABLE versions of web browsers?

    Is there an archive page for downloads of Flash Player plugin installers for the PORTABLE versions of web browsers like Firefox ESR?
    One of my web browsers is Firefox ESR 10.0.7 and it is a PORTABLE version of Firefox that apparently needs a different Flash Player plugin than the normal Flash Player plugin that regular versions of most web browsers require.
    I do not want to install the most recent Flash Player plugin PORTABLE version because I've read about problems with it and that's the only version that this Firefox ESR will give me the option to download and install when I try to install the needed Flash Player plugin through the browser.
    I already know about the normal Adobe Flash Player plugin archive page, linked below, but that does not have the Flash Player plugins for PORTABLE web browsers.
    http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/archived-flash-player-versions.html
    I also looked on OldApps.com and I couldn't find anything there.
    Where can I download an older version, possibly one of the 11.2 Flash Player plugins from around April 2012, that will work with this PORTABLE version Firefox ESR?
    I tried this question on the Mozilla Firefox help forum but no one could answer it.
    Thanks for any help,
    digiday

    Hi Pat,
    Thanks again for your reply. Your solutions seemed like they might work, especially since you were able to tell me where the Windows system Flash Player plugin files are located.
    And for a minute or two, I thought it was working.  In my first tests in the PORTABLE Firefox browser I'm testing with, it was actually playing some YouTube videos, but then I found that not all YouTube videos apparently rely on Flash to play... apparently some do and some do not, and I found that most of them do require Flash to play.  I had tested with some of my own videos that I uploaded to YouTube in the past in my first tests today and they played just fine, but then I started testing with some other Flash YouTube videos and they would not play and I got both the yellow bar at the top of my window telling me to download and install Flash as well as the red banner across the video player that told me I needed to install Flash.
    Let me also make it clear that I'm testing this on other sites with Flash videos besides YouTube, and webpages that have relatively simple animated Flash graphics, and those alternate tests are showing that the Flash Player plugin for this PORTABLE Firefox still will not work either.
    So to spite everything, I tried actually downloading and installing the newest Flash Player plugin, 11.4 something, (which I was trying to avoid) through the browser, and that only proceeded to overwrite my Windows system Flash Player plugin and it DID NOT place any Flash Player plugin files in the PORTABLE Firefox plugins folder.
    I had pasted in the files you recommended in to the PORTABLE Firefox plugins folder, and I actaully included ALL the files from that Windows system Flash plugin folder for this test, but unfortunately that didn't work, and even after I tried changing the name of that one file, it still didn't work.
    And I am closing and re-opening the browser in between each of these steps in my test.
    So here, below, I'm including an email letter that I've now written to a Tor Browser support email address where I had been corresoponding previously.  The "Tor-Firefox" web browser is the PORTABLE Firefox ESR web browser that I've been referring to.  This is what I wrote, which pretty much sums up everything I've tried and been unsuccessful with so far...
    Hello Tor Browser help staff,
    I've now tried everything and I cannot get ANY Flash content to play in this Tor-Firefox ESR web browser, even though I've tried installing the Flash player plugin that this browser asks for when I'm on a YouTube page (and even though this computer already had a current Flash Player plugin installed previously).
    Let me make it clear that privacy is not important to me right  now during this quest to make the Flash Player plugin work with this Tor browser... I can reset any settings for maximum privacy later when I go back to that purpose for using Tor... right now, I'm just trying to make the Tor browser play Flash content.
    So even though I've UNCHECKED the Torbutton>Preferences>Security  Settings>Disable plugin during Tor usage box, and I installed a new Flash player plugin THROUGH this browser, and I even set it to allow all scripts because I thought maybe that was complicating things, IT STILL WILL NOT PLAY FLASH CONTENT OF ANY TYPE.
    Now, this, explained below, could be part of the problem that I'd like to ask for your help or SOMEONE's help with there in your department...
    If I go to the Tor Browser folder on my hard drive at C:>Tor  Browser>FirefoxPortable>Data>plugins there are NO Flash plugin files that show up in that folder even after I install a new Flash Player plugin THROUGH this browser... I believe that is why it will not play Flash content. 
    All it does when I install a Flash Player plugin through this Tor browser is to overwrite my Windows 7 system Flash Player plugin, but it does not actually place any Flash Player plugin files in the C:>Tor Browser>FirefoxPortable>Data>plugins folder, so that's why this PORTABLE version of the Firefox ESR browser will not play any Flash content... and it doesn't work from the Windows system Flash Player plugin the way that my normal Firefox (NON-TOR) web browser does.  My other Firefox web browser sees the the Windows system Flash Player plugin just fine and it does play Flash content correctly.
    There is, however, one text file that comes stock inside the Tor browser plugins folder and when it is opened it says, "Place Firefox plugins in this directory (Flash, Shockwave, etc)".
    So with some advice from someone on the Adobe help forum, I tried copying the Flash Player plugin files from the Windows system folder at C:>Windows>System32>Macromed>Flash in to the Tor browser plugins folder at C:>Tor  Browser>FirefoxPortable>Data>plugins, and that still didn't work. 
    Note that I am closing and re-opening the Tor browser between each of these tests.
    So I then followed some further advice from the expert on the Adobe help forum and I changed the name of the main Flash Player plugin file that I had copied and pasted in to the Tor browser plugins folder from "NPSWF32_11_4_402_278.dll" to "NPSWF32.dll", and that still did not work... note that I left all the other files that I copied and pasted from the Windows system Flash plugins folder with the same name they originally had... I tried only changing that one Flash plugin file name, as instructed by the expert on the Adobe help forum.
    I also tried posting a question about this on the Mozilla Firefox forum, but no one there is able to answer this question.
    What the problem seems to be is that when this Tor-Firefox ESR 10.0.7 browser installs a Flash Player plugin, it just installs it to the Windows system folder (the same way that the normal (non-Tor) Firefox browser does) and  NOT  into the Tor-Firefox plugins folder C:>Tor  Browser>FirefoxPortable>Data>plugins, as would be needed for it to be able to play Flash content.
    No matter what I do, whenever I try to view a YouTube video or any Flash video in this browser, or any Flash graphic content at all, I get the yellow bar at the top of the page that says "Additional plugins are required to display all the media on this page - Install Missing Plugins" and there is a banner displayed where the Flash content is supposed to be that says, "The Adobe Flash Player is required for video playback - Get the latest Flash Player".
    And as I explained at the top of this email, I have already installed and re-installed the Flash Player plugin on this computer multiple times, including doing it directly through this Tor-Firefox ESR browser itself.
    So can ANYONE there tell me how to get the correct Flash Player plugin files in to the Tor-Firefox browser plugins folder at C:>Tor  Browser>FirefoxPortable>Data>plugins, and where do I get those files?  Everything I've tried, which is pretty extensive, has not worked, and it seems that someone there should know about this.
    Thanks for your help.

  • I keep getting message "cannot contact reliable source" when trying to install Flash Player.

    I turned off AVG anti-virus and uninstalled old Flash Player versions.  I keep getting message "cannot contact reliable source" when trying to install Flash Player.

    I cant copy and paste the install file but it was not a or b above.  It was copied from the adobe website, downloaded  successfully, but will not install.  I get the download from http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/installation-problems-flash-player-windows.html#mai n-pars_header

  • Flash player wont work please help

    I have flash player installed and recently no videos, for example youtube, will work on ANY browser. I have tried troubleshooting and resetting browsers and nothing has worked, I cant watch any videos, please help!
    It looks as if the videos keep restarting 2 or 3 times then crash altogether if that helps

    This is super weird, particularly because the ActiveX (for Internet Explorer), NPAPI (for Firefox) and PPAPI (for Chrome) browsers are all pretty different.  This is definitely not the normal pattern.
    Does *any* Flash content work?  Maybe something old like http://www.homestarrunner.com?  My guess is that it doesn't.
    I definitely need some more clues:
    - Operating System and Version
    - Browsers and Versions
    - Any anti-virus/anti-malware/firewall/save-flash-video-to-disk kind of stuff installed?
    - Any JavaScript blockers or privacy plug-ins that might block JavaScript from executing?
    My gut feel says reboot, Uninstall Flash Player | Windows, then download a fresh copy of Flash Player for Firefox and Internet Explorer by using each browser to go to http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer. 
    Hopefully that helps.

  • Can you install the needed Flash Player software onto a thumb drive?

    I have a large desktop that needs the new Flash Player. However, I am in the country with only dialup. I can take my laptop to the library for fast Internet. Is it possible to download the needed flash player software onto a thumb drive and then transfer that to the desktop. I've downloaded the install file but it gives me no location choice when it begins the install. Working with windows 7 on both machines.
    Thanks

    Hi Ellen,
    Yes, you can save the offline version of Flash Player onto a thumb drive and then copy/move it to a computer to install it.  The version downloaded from get.adobe.com/flashplayer is what we refer to the online installer.  It's a shim installer that then downloads and installs Flash Player silently.  The offline installers are posted at the bottom of the Installation problems | Flash Player | Windows page in the 'Still having problems' section.  There are various installers for various browsers.  You'll want to download the file(s) corresponding with the browser(rs) you use.
    Maria

  • Help Adobe Flash Player is not working

    I have a Windows 7 64 bit computer with IE 9- I am using the 32 bit IE so that is not the problem. When I go to Hulu or Youtube it tells me to update my flash player to 10.32 or higher. I tried downloading 10.1 but that did not work and it did not work with 10.2 please try to help me!!!

    Hello,
    Try to uninstall Flash Player from this uinstaller : http://download.macromedia.com/pub/flashplayer/current/uninstall_flash_player.exe
    Install a fresh copy of Flash Player from this installer :
    http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/licensing/win/install_flash_playe r_10_active_x.exe
    Make sure while doing this you are logged in as Admin and no other process are running (Internet Explorer or any Messenger)
    Hope that helps
    Thanks

  • Flash Player to USB Drive

    What steps are necessary to copy Adobe Flash Player to a usb drive? 

    Flash Player is a browser add-on that resides in the system area; it cannot be copied to a USB drive.
    Unless you are talking about the installer; you can download offline installers from http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/distribution3.html
    Or you are talking about the standalone player (Projector), which you can download from http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/downloads.html

  • Flash player stops and starts intermittently

    Does anyone know why videos stop and start intermittently. It becomes frustrating to watch and I eventually give up.

    op sys win 7 adobe flash player 10
    I have the same problem.  it seems related to bandwidth.
    i am limited in my data plan to 256 kb/sec
    i did not have this problem a year ago.  but had it when i used win xp as well.  Today noticed a site where i could choose low speed, medium speed or high speed bandwith. i chose the low speed 265 kb and the video played flawlessly without stopping and starting
    I claim no expertise and eagerly await some informed advice on whether it is possible change a setting within flash player to accomadate us low bandwith users.

Maybe you are looking for