#ENABLE ADOBE FLASH PLAYER VIRUS MAC OS X#
#ENABLE ADOBE FLASH PLAYER VIRUS INSTALL#

The вЂњAdobe Flash Player UpdateвЂќ redirect may be caused either by malicious advertisements on the sites you visit or adware.

When you try to uninstall Adobe Flash Player from your Mac, you might find that this plug-in is not so easy to delete.

#ENABLE ADOBE FLASH PLAYER VIRUS MAC OS X#

Adobe Flash Player for the Mac is a plug-in, not a Mac OS X application.SEE ALSO: Find Out if Your Mac Has the Flashback Trojan - the Fast and Easy Way After installing Flashback, the malware seeks out user names and passwords that are stored on your Mac.

#ENABLE ADOBE FLASH PLAYER VIRUS INSTALL#

So how should you install Adobe Flash Player? Or any other software for that matter? In this case I could have clicked on the second link which would have brought me directly to the download page for Adobe Flash Player (and unchecked the box to opt-out of installing McAfee Security Scan Plus of course.) In general we recommend downloading software directly from the software companyвЂ™s website whenever possible, otherwise you could end up installing all sorts of additional, potentially unwanted software along with the free software that you wanted to download вЂ“ or even a completely different program like I just did.Flashback was originally discovered in September 2011 and was designed to disguise itself as an Adobe Flash Player installer, using Flash player logos. The website even had fine print stating that вЂњThis software may be available free elsewhereвЂќ which was hyperlinked to the download page for VLC media player! I was surprised and disappointed to get VLC media player instead.) The link I had clicked on initially displayed itвЂ™s URL as / and included the text вЂњInstall AdobeFlash Player NowвЂќ so you would think that link would get you Adobe Flash Player, but no, it was just a misleading ad that appeared as the top result on the search page that led to a вЂњdownload managerвЂќ which bundled a bunch of additional software along with VLC media player, which can be downloaded for free.

Okay, VLC media player will play flash files, but I really expected to be getting Adobe Flash Player (Seriously, while I was doing this I was hoping this was one of the вЂњdownload managersвЂќ that actually downloads and installs the actual Adobe Flash Player along with all of this other software. VLC media player? WhereвЂ™s the Adobe Flash Player I started out downloading? I should have my Flash Player any moment nowвЂ¦ Wait a minute. Now RealPlayer, which was bundled with Flash Player wants to install the Google Toolbar? A bundle within a bundle? OkayвЂ¦ Click. That seems like a lot of software to install in order to get my Adobe Flash Player, but weвЂ™re not done yet, hereвЂ™s something called Optimizer Pro. Next up is some program called Solid Savings. I click the download button, click through the download dialog box and run dialog box, come to the Optimum Download screen for my Free Flash Player.

Ignoring the second link which doesnвЂ™t have a five star rating and 37 reviews, IвЂ™m brought to a page called. It seems simple enough, I want to install Adobe Flash Player so I search for вЂњflash player download and click on the first result, right?

Enable adobe flash player virus