I am really attempting not to get paranoid here. But computers are not to be trusted. Well not the computer itself but what is allowed to run on it.
I’ve got an Adobe Flash Player (32-bit) app showing up in control panels. I have a 64-bit system.
Go to add remove programs and features and adobe flash is not listed, can’t select it to remove it if it isn’t listed, so no uninstaller.
On Adobe’s website they have an “uninstall” process. Down load this file. Exit any program using flash. Run the uninstaller. Delete a directory in Windows/syswow64/macromed.
Try to remove that directory. Error process requires trustedinstaller permission.
Go into file properties, security, advanced, permissions to do it manually and the options are greyed out. Try to take ownership of the file and it is greyed out.
These are the processes prescribed by the vendors and they don’t work to solve the removal of flash.
So here is what I am told flash does. Every flash enabled website exchanges a cookie with a folder on your computer and device. If flash was enabled in your browser it can control what hits you can see on the web.
So if I type “disgruntled flash users” in a browser search engine I only get results to install an updated flash. I’m sure there are plenty of users that are questioning Adobe Systems and Microsoft, but why can’t I see their ideas represented in my browser?
It’s like something is attempting to wash what ever “soul” is left out of me.
I teach Adobe Applications for a living. Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign. Adobe was pretty cool to me at one time in my past. I was in computer sales in the early nineties, and had a direct line to support at Adobe systems. It seemed like I called, boots on the ground, and they answered. Their is a need for an elliptical dot in screen printing, and poof, I got an elliptical dot to sell.
I’ve been with the computer industry since 1983 when I first became interested in computer imagery and it’s communication potential. In 1988 my future uncle in law sent me a copy of a beta version of Illustrator 88. He said as a graphic artist I should try it out. Computers were fairly expensive back then, but I managed to borrow some time on a Mac Plus to try it out. Computer programmers really didn’t have a great handle on user interface back then.
Sure as a trained artist I brought some baggage along for the ride. Like all the experience I had before working with artistic mediums. I have played with a few. But it wasn’t familiar at all. I couldn’t cross an X on this tool. I filled out an evaluation. In the comments section I wrote something like; if you are going to release a tool for a specific use it could behave like expected. I have drawn a lot of curves in my time and it wan’t anything like it.
In the mean time I got a computer. It was DOS based. There is still a layer of DOS however vamped to this day.
It is still possible to boot to a DOS command prompt in WIndows 10, it has become rather unintuitive to get to.
So I boot to a command prompt in safe mode without any non-microsoft drivers functioning and path to the drive and dirctory where macromed is found in a windows directory tree and it’s not displayed. It is suppose to be in the syswow64 directory as listed by windows, but it doesn’t get listed when executing a dir command at the command prompt with in the DOS command prompt shell.
Microsoft isn’t taking about it on their webs community site nor do I find anything when searching Adobe.com. This is also the case when I have searched using the supposed anonymous web search engine duck duck go.
So tell me I am paranoid and post me some links on how to get flash off my computer.
And I am seriously wondering if I want to teach Adobe software any longer. I am enabling the taking advantage of individuals without their consent. Without their understanding. The world looks pretty fucked up from this perspective. And so many appear to have a devise of some kind glued to their hand.
Case in point. Our President. That’s concerning. Yeah Trump is the President of the country that has claimed me it’s citizen. I am owned by the United States of America, a slave of the shame of democracy that has been made of it. Politicians didn’t orchestrate this. The love of power and greed has.
Piss off if that is what you want. No middle men wanted.