I forgot to mention I had the Adobe Flash player
uninstall pop-up again.

https://postimg.cc/nXm0ghvH

The only reason I don't uninstall it is because
I think some of my software uses it like Dell Imaging
but I don't know for sure. Is there a way to find out?
However do you recommend un-installing it? I get this
pop-up every so often and I just close it.

Thoughts/suggestions?
Robert

On 11/1/2021 4:48 PM, Robert in CA wrote:
> I forgot to mention I had the Adobe Flash player
> uninstall pop-up again.
>
> https://postimg.cc/nXm0ghvH
>
> The only reason I don't uninstall it is because
> I think some of my software uses it like Dell Imaging
> but I don't know for sure. Is there a way to find out?
> However do you recommend un-installing it? I get this
> pop-up every so often and I just close it.
>
> Thoughts/suggestions?
> Robert
>

You know more about this than I do.

I thought the Flash thing was supposed to stop
functioning. Which is a quick way to discover whether
an application was really using it or not.

At least for web browsers with Flash, the web browsers
received updates to make them treat the Flash plugin
with "mis-trust". It would be disabled, unless the
user clicked something to enable it again, so the
situation was controlled from the corporate end of
the ecosystem.

If you have an application that hasn't received updates
for ten years, maybe Flash still works there. But really,
given how the various companies treated it, they used
every opportunity possible to kick it to the curb.
That is probably why that notification keeps popping up.

*******

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Flash

"In July 2017, Adobe deprecated Flash, and announced its End-Of-Life
(EOL) at the end of 2020, and will cease support, distribution, and
security updates for Flash Player.[1]

With Flash's EOL announced, many browsers took steps to gradually
restrict Flash content (caution users before launching it, eventually
blocking all content without an option to play it).

By January 2021, all major browsers were blocking all Flash content
unconditionally. Only IE11, niche browser forks, and some browsers built
for China plan to continue support. Furthermore, excluding the China
variant of Flash, Flash execution software has a built-in kill switch
which prevents it from playing Flash after January 12, 2021.[65]

In January 2021, Microsoft released an optional update KB4577586 which
removes Flash Player from Windows; in July 2021 this update was pushed
out as a security update and applied automatically to all remaining
systems.[66]
"

Paul

It may well have stopped functioning. I just uninstalled it.

Thanks,
Robert

Since we just restored the 8500 I thought you should see this:

https://postimg.cc/qtDH1c1j

I found it while doing a malwarebytes scan. I quarantined it and
ran the scan again which came up clean.

Robert

On 11/3/2021 9:28 AM, Robert in CA wrote:
> Since we just restored the 8500 I thought you should see this:
>
> https://postimg.cc/qtDH1c1j
>
> I found it while doing a malwarebytes scan. I quarantined it and
> ran the scan again which came up clean.
>
> Robert
>

Here is a description of what it was.

https://blog.malwarebytes.com/detections/pup-optional-bytefence/

Paul

From the description it says its usually caused by bundlers
but I haven't downloaded anything except the updates.

In any case, I've already done the recommended procedure.

Always best to make sure,

Thanks,
Robert

I just wanted to make a final note.

So far the speaker icon has remained and
I've added all the saved files so I'm back up
to speed. Both computers are running well.

I made a Mrimg backup later that day because
all seemed good.

Thanks again,
Robert