Flash Player isn't really up to date

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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This week Firefox tells me 18.0.0.203 is vulnerable and blocks it. https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ shows 18.0.0.209 is the latest version.

Yet my Avast software updater says my Flash is up to date. What gives?

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Reset the software updater and see what happens.
How to do it is explained in other posts.

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Maybe this will make it easier for you:

http://www.screencast-o-matic.com/screenshots/u/Lh/1437080415180-90420.png

http://www.screencast-o-matic.com/screenshots/u/Lh/1437080551585-25311.png

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OK did that. My ignores were unignored, which makes sense, but Flash still says up to date.

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The problem appears to be with firefox not avast.

What flash version does firefox say you have (Firefox - Add-ons - Plugins - it will show Shockwave Flash (not Flash Player).

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Nope, Firefox is right and Avast is wrong.

http://i.imgur.com/OaFNugQ.png

http://i.imgur.com/aFVkZbK.png

http://i.imgur.com/l2lPO6Q.png

http://i.imgur.com/MLUpU6q.png

Am I really the only one with this problem?

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Sorry firefox isn’t correct, if it is showing 18.0.0.203 when the latest is 18.0.0.209

So if avast is telling you it is up to date and the adobe get flash player shows 18.0.0.209 is the latest version ???

There has been a recent update and your third image shows flash player 18.0.0.203 installed on 11/7/2015 there has been an update since then.

One thing to remember is that there are going to be two flash player entries, one is for Internet Explorer (activeX) and a browser plugin version for the likes of firefox and chrome.

I would suggest ensuring you have 18.0.0.209 by downloading it from here https://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/distribution3.html (both versions).

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Dude, are you trolling me?

Can anyone from Avast assist? I use the Avast updater because it’s much better than Adobe’s contraption for Flash. I only have the Gecko plugin installed, not ActiveX. Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 64-bit.

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He isn’t trolling you he gave you an answer even if it’s not to your inking. :slight_smile:

http://www.screencast-o-matic.com/screenshots/u/Lh/1437169841393-58403.png

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I had problems updating flash player with Firefox 39 on my wifes XP machine. The only way I was able to update it was with the AVAST sofware updater.

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The best way to update anything is a). not to do it automatically and b). go to the software originator and get it direct.

There is no problem getting Flash updated to whatever the most recent version actually is from the Adobe web site as DavidR also recommended. The only thing to watch out for is to remember to uncheck the PUP McAfee security scan option.

Other than that it is just a question of downloading the installer, a few MB, and then initiating the download and install. All over and done with very quickly and I can confirm no issue with WinXP/Firefox 39.0 either.

You can then be pretty sure that for everything that uses Flash on your machine it has been correctly updated whatever AVAST or Firefox is reporting.

That is what the problem seems to be: a reporting issue and, on the evidence provided, it is not the AVAST updater that is at fault.

I’d close Firefox and then use CCleaner at its default settings, restart Firefox and see what it then shows in Addons as regards the Shockwave Flash plugin version currently installed.

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I read the thread myself. To me it looks as if Firefox had Flash version 18.x.x.203 installed and had blocked it
because of vulnerabilities discovered.

Adobe had already released 18.x.x.209, but the avast updater was not yet aware of it.

I always manually uninstall Flash and download the new version from here:
https://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/distribution3.html

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I had no problem letting Avast update as is evident here:
https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=173746.msg1234176#msg1234176