I got my installers, both Flash and Shockwave, from the FileHippo site. I'm using XP, with FF, and not using the Adobe getplus thing to download it (had it once, removed it). That/those key(s) will be going away, too.Īll of this business, regarding both Flash and Shockwave, is part of the reason why so many people look askance at those apps.Īdobe/Macromedia always seems to be up to something that, while there's room for excuses or 'plausible deniability' on their part, at the same time causes the hairy eyeball that Adobe/Macromedia is sometimes given to be not unjustified.ĪB, Which, of the few Flash downloads and styles, did you get/use? account, which I'm not currently using.īut I'll log back into that one later just to check and see. No 'Symantec' key, though I can recall also having one of those created on previous occasions, and may in fact have one now under HKCU in my Admin. I remember deleting it before on other occasions after a Flash install. But that key is created right along with those files from the Macromed/Flash folder. The 'Google Toolbar' subkey is empty, containing only the standard 'no value set' information. (The main 'Google' key is there because I have Google Earth installed.) Exactly.Īnd one more thing of note: I now (once again, as this has also happened before) have a 'Google Toolbar' subkey under HKLM/Software/Google in the registry. So those related files (or some of them) were still downloaded for you, but just not installed.

I ended up manipulating the download url (open in new tab) and removed &i=McAfee_Security_Scan_Plus and/or &d=Google_Toolbar_6.5 and presented me the unadulterated flash.exe version. I then went to IE, and had the same problem, but this time it presenting the Google Tool bar. Left, cleared cache, came back - same thing.

When I went to get the flash update (with FF), I unchecked the Norton System Scan (and doing that also removes the Norton part of the 'by clicking this you agree to the user agreement' on the screen), but the download exe presented I noticed said something like 'flash_with_NSS.exe' so I backed up to try again and got the same thing. I was able to catch it before downloading/installing. I had the same problem that the unchecked bundled preference(s) were ignored. And for Flash Player updates, declining the Norton scan or the Google Toolbar also doesn't prevent three or four Google Toolbar files and 'SCC.dll' (a Symantec file) from cropping up in the Flash folder, either.

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