Why do Adobe flash/reader installers, in this day and age...
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STILL delete themselves? Without prompting?
Also, I've been trying to find one article about that I thought I've read on The Daily WTF, but my search has so far been fruitless.
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@Medinoc said in Why do Adobe flash/reader installers, in this day and age...:
STILL delete themselves? Without prompting?
Also, I've been trying to find one article about that I thought I've read on The Daily WTF, but my search has so far been fruitless.
Flash players should delete themselves. (Er, the player, not the installer.)
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@Steve_The_Cynic said in Why do Adobe flash/reader installers, in this day and age...:
@Medinoc said in Why do Adobe flash/reader installers, in this day and age...:
STILL delete themselves? Without prompting?
Also, I've been trying to find one article about that I thought I've read on The Daily WTF, but my search has so far been fruitless.
Flash players should delete themselves. (Er, the player, not the installer.)
The installer should delete itself before installation.
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And why does it have the option to “automatically” update, but then the only thing it does is tell you that there’s an update available and you have to go to their website to download the installer and install manually?!
Also, since the installers are just a stub that download the actual install from the web, they could just ship and keep that same installer for all versions.
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I don't know why Adobe does what they do, but I did discover this some time ago:
Acrobat Reader: https://get.adobe.com/reader/enterprise/
A full, real installer, not just a stub that downloads the real installer.
You can get the same thing for Flash also. You just have to fill out an online form for a "license to distribute Flash".
Adobe Flash Player Enterprise End of Life
Adobe Flash Player Enterprise End of Life general information
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@topspin said in Why do Adobe flash/reader installers, in this day and age...:
And why does it have the option to “automatically” update, but then the only thing it does is tell you that there’s an update available and you have to go to their website to download the installer and install manually?!
UAC. And not wanting to litter the system with yet another auto update service just to bypass it.
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@loopback0 said in Why do Adobe flash/reader installers, in this day and age...:
The installer should delete itself before installation.
I once wrote a software like this. Symantec end point protection had a false positive on it, and as soon as I copied it from the network it would be disappeared, and the domain admins or whatever configured it in a way that there was no notification.
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@sockpuppet7 said in Why do Adobe flash/reader installers, in this day and age...:
@loopback0 said in Why do Adobe flash/reader installers, in this day and age...:
The installer should delete itself before installation.
I once wrote a software like this. Symantec end point protection had a false positive on it, and as soon as I copied it from the network it would be disappeared, and the domain admins or whatever configured it in a way that there was no notification.
Is this the fbmac origin story?
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@El_Heffe said in Why do Adobe flash/reader installers, in this day and age...:
I don't know why Adobe does what they do
I kind of doubt Adobe itself does at this point.
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@Steve_The_Cynic said in Why do Adobe flash/reader installers, in this day and age...:
Flash players should delete themselves.
My company recently announced that they'll be deleting flash from all of our computers. Apparently some VMWare tools still rely on it, so that's going to be interesting.
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@boomzilla said in Why do Adobe flash/reader installers, in this day and age...:
Apparently some VMWare tools still rely on it, so that's going to be interesting.
Never let reality stand in the way of company policies.
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@boomzilla said in Why do Adobe flash/reader installers, in this day and age...:
My company recently announced that they'll be deleting flash from all of our computers.
I saw Silverlight on a corporate machine recently
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@HardwareGeek said in Why do Adobe flash/reader installers, in this day and age...:
@boomzilla said in Why do Adobe flash/reader installers, in this day and age...:
Apparently some VMWare tools still rely on it, so that's going to be interesting.
Never let reality stand in the way of company policies.
There's almost always a procedure for applying for exceptions. I was frankly surprised that it was installed at all.
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@loopback0 said in Why do Adobe flash/reader installers, in this day and age...:
Silverlight
Apparently the last release of Silverlight was 2019 and it's supported on IE11 until 2021.
I thought it went EOL years ago.
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@loopback0 said in Why do Adobe flash/reader installers, in this day and age...:
@boomzilla said in Why do Adobe flash/reader installers, in this day and age...:
My company recently announced that they'll be deleting flash from all of our computers.
I saw Silverlight on a corporate machine recently
Never installed. I just hoped it’d die off before I ever need it.
Come to think of it, I’m doing that with a lot of modern fads. Rarely as successful.
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@loopback0 It left Mainstream Support years ago. It was still in Extended Support before it was subsumed into the IE PSLC.
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@Medinoc said in Why do Adobe flash/reader installers, in this day and age...:
STILL delete themselves? Without prompting?
Also, I've been trying to find one article about that I thought I've read on The Daily WTF, but my search has so far been fruitless.
Sounds like the article deleted itself. Maybe it got infected with flash.
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@loopback0 said in Why do Adobe flash/reader installers, in this day and age...:
I thought it went EOL years ago.
Toby Fair, it was DOA
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@boomzilla said in Why do Adobe flash/reader installers, in this day and age...:
some VMWare tools still rely on it
The real
is that any serious/enterprisey non-Flash related tool has ever relied on it in the first place.
