I don't think you have any reason to worry about the Adobe Flash installation on either of your machines as long as you downloaded the installer from the official Adobe web site and managed to get the installation to go to completion without being aborted by the NIS File Insight. So where does that leave me? Should I be concerned or not? #VIRUS UPDATE ADOBE FLASH PLAYER WINDOWS 7#However, my main concern now is that I ran an exe file on my Windows 7 computer that NIS reported as safe at the time, but the next day flagged as a trojan horse. In all cases I updated Flash using the official Adobe site, and it appears that both computers are now correctly updated to the latest version (the Adobe version checker says so). So I then ran the installer and updated Flash (still no Insight report), then ran scans and no threats were found. Late yesterday I tried again on the XP machine: this time I got no Norton Insight report, so I saved the file instead, at which point Insight gave it the OK. Meanwhile I tried to update Flash in IE on an XP machine with the latest definitions, and when running the installer got a warning from NIS that the file was a trojan horse and discontinued updating. #VIRUS UPDATE ADOBE FLASH PLAYER FULL#However, when I did a routine full system scan the next day (yesterday, after the usual updating of definitions etc), NIS found the file in my temporary internet files and quarantined it as a trojan horse. Just to clarify the situation, I updated Flash in IE on my Windows 7 computer 2 days ago, and while doing it, Norton Insight reported that the file was safe. HP Pavilion dv6835ca, Intel Core2Duo CPU T5550 1.83 GHz, 3.0 GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce 8400 G Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit SP2 * NIS 2011 v. If you receive any warnings from NIS File Insight about problems with the file trust ratings similar to the screen shot below, click on the Check Trust Now link in this pop-up window to make sure that you have the latest trust ratings from the Symantec servers. #VIRUS UPDATE ADOBE FLASH PLAYER INSTALL#Install Adobe Flash from the Run command (Start | Run) with the new installation file with all browsers and instant messenger software closed. Firefox add-ons) - save the installation file to your hard drive and do not run the installation from your browser.Ħ. #VIRUS UPDATE ADOBE FLASH PLAYER DOWNLOAD#Download a new copy of the Adobe Flash Player installer from FileHippo (see message # 12 for correct links for IE vs. Run the Adobe Flash Uninstall Utility again for safe measureĥ. Download and run the Adobe Flash Uninstall Utility to clean out remnants of any old installationĤ. If necessary, uninstall any Adobe Flash add-on from the Windows Control Panel as you normally would for other softwareĢ. If that is the case you will have to re-download a fresh copy of the installation file. If the installation file on your Win 7 computer was somehow corrupted during download, Norton Insight will continue to find a problem with the digital signature and/or hash value (see floplot's's suggestion here about submitting your file to VirusTotal for a SHA256 hash tag check) and it will continue to identify the file as potential malware. 9:42 AM,Info,Download Insight analyzed install_flash_player_ax.exe,Access allowed,c:\Sandbox\BJMS\DefaultBox\user\current\Desktop\install_flash_player_ax.exe 9:43 AM,Info,Download Insight analyzed install_flash_player.exe,Access allowed,c:\Sandbox\BJMS\DefaultBox\user\current\Desktop\install_flash_player.exe 10:24 AM,Info,Download Insight analyzed uninstall_flash_player.exe,Access allowed,c:\Users\BJMS\Desktop\uninstall_flash_player.exe 10:25 AM,Info,Download Insight detected launch of uninstall_flash_player.exe,Activity allowed once,c:\users\bjms\desktop\uninstall_flash_player.exe 10:26 AM,Info,Download Insight detected launch of install_flash_player_ax.exe,Activity allowed once,c:\users\bjms\desktop\install_flash_player_ax.exe 10:26 AM,Info,Download Insight detected launch of install_flash_player.exe,Activity allowed once,c:\users\bjms\desktop\install_flash_player.exe FWIW ~~ unistaller from Adobe
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