One way to get an inventory of old copies of the Flash player that may still be floating around your computer is the online Secunia Software Inspector.* Since they are not helping you, you need to help yourself. The latest version, with these two problems, is dated December 3, 2007.Īdobe is hurting their reputation by failing to reliably un-install their own software. Since then, they have not released a new version of their un-installer. I first reported this to Adobe roughly a month ago. I documented two instances where the Adobe uninstaller left behind an old buggy copy of the Flash player (see Problems updating the Flash player in Firefox? Here's Help). On top of this, the Adobe Flash player un-installer is incomplete. Brian Krebs at mentioned both the needed upgrade and the un-installer, but only mentioned the un-installer in passing. Neither did Good Morning Silicon Valley or InfoWorld.ĬomputerWorld mentioned the need to upgrade, but said nothing about un-installing old versions. Lockergnome also doesn't seem to have mentioned this. Richards, to my mind, Adobe hasn't done enough to publicize either the non-standard uninstall process or the need to upgrade to version 9.0.115.0 in the first place.įor example, a search on CNET's own for "flash player" turns up my previous blogs, but nothing in the news section about the need to upgrade the Flash player. The just-released January 24th edition warned about the Flash security problems and the need to upgrade to version 9.0.115.0, but it didn't mention Adobe's Flash Player un-installer program. No one told Ian "Gizmo" Richards, the man behind the Support Alert newsletter.
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