Uninstall Adobe Flash Player
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Property Details
| 3976 | |
| Beta - Preliminary testing ready for more | |
| Uninstall Adobe Flash Player | |
| BESC | |
| Internal | |
| 2/6/2015 12:00:00 AM | |
| Uninstall, Remove, Adobe Flash, Plugin, Plug-In, ActiveX, Active-X, Security | |
| JasonWalker on 2/6/2015 1:29:34 PM | |
| JasonWalker on 2/6/2015 1:29:34 PM | |
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Relevance
isWindows (Relevance 1172)
windows of operating system
if exists property "in proxy agent context" then not in proxy agent context else true
| Used in 1 fixlet | * Results in a true/false |
/* 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)
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Action 1 (default)
Action Link Click
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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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| 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) | |

