Uninstall Adobe Flash Player
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Description

Removes both 32- and 64-bit Adobe Flash from Windows systems.  Kills browsers and Flash itself as necessary.

Property Details

ID3976
StatusBeta - Preliminary testing ready for more
TitleUninstall Adobe Flash Player
DomainBESC
SourceInternal
Source Release Date2/6/2015 12:00:00 AM
KeywordsUninstall, Remove, Adobe Flash, Plugin, Plug-In, ActiveX, Active-X, Security
Added by on 2/6/2015 1:29:34 PM
Last Modified by on 2/6/2015 1:29:34 PM
Counters 10643 Views / 155 Downloads
User Rating 1 star 2 star 3 star 4 star 5 star * Average over 1 rating. ** Log In or Register to add your rating.

Relevance

isWindows (Relevance 1172)
Used in 1155 fixlets and 538 analyses   * Results in a true/false
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windows of operating system
Used in 33 fixlets and 17 analyses   * Results in a true/false
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if exists property "in proxy agent context" then not in proxy agent context else true
Used in 1 fixlet   * Results in a true/false
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/* Check for system folders */ exists files whose (((it starts with "flash" and it ends with ".ocx") OR (it = "swflash.ocx") OR (it as string contains "npswf32" AND it as string contains ".dll")) of (name of it as lowercase) ) of folders "macromed\flash" of (system folder;system wow64 folder) OR /* check for Firefox extension */ (exists key "HKLM\Software\Mozilla" whose (exists key whose (name of it does not contain "Netscape" AND exists key "Extensions" whose (exists file "NPSWF32.dll" of folder (value "Plugins" of it as string)) of it) of it) of registry)

Actions

Action 1 (default)

Action Link Click here to deploy this action.
Script Type BigFix Action Script
// This is currently written to download the uninstaller directly from Adobe, but I do not know how often they update the uninstaller
// so the size and sha1 will not be valid forever. May want to grab a copy to host internally and change the URL.

begin prefetch block
    add prefetch item name=uninstall_flash_player.exe sha1=d120cfa9f7d2945e4ed0ff938c4afe18931f7203 size=961200 url=http://download.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/support/uninstall_flash_player.exe
    collect prefetch items
end prefetch block

action uses wow64 redirection false

delete __appendfile
waithidden taskkill.exe /im iexplore.exe /f
waithidden taskkill.exe /im firefox.exe /f
waithidden taskkill.exe /im chrome.exe /f
waithidden taskkill.exe /im plugin-container.exe /f
waithidden taskkill.exe /im "FlashUtil*" /f

waithidden __Download\uninstall_flash_player.exe -uninstall
Success Criteria

This action will be considered successful when the applicability relevance evaluates to false.


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JasonWalker -
Can't uninstall from Windows 8; there we might disable it in IE instead. Need to add a Relevance (version of operating system <= "6.1" as version)