What is the "flashplayer.exe" ?

Our database contains 63 different files for filename flashplayer.exe . You can also check most distributed file variants with name flashplayer.exe. This files most often belongs to product Adobe® Flash® Player Installer/Uninstaller. and were most often developed by company Adobe Systems Incorporated. This files most often have description Adobe® Flash® Player Installer/Uninstaller 11.4 r402. Agregate rating is 4(4) stars - based on 7 reviews.This is executable file. You can find it running in Task Manager as the process flashplayer.exe.

This executable is the main file for the installation package of the famous Adobe® Flash® Player: 

"Adobe® Flash® Player is a cross-platform, browser-based application runtime that provides uncompromised viewing of expressive applications, content, and videos across browsers and operating systems."

For the Adobe Flash Player see more on http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer.html

More info can be found on WIkipedia (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_player) :

Adobe Flash Player is freeware software for viewing multimedia, executing rich Internet applications, and streaming video and audio, content created on the Adobe Flash platform. Flash Player can run from a web browser (as a browser plug-in) or on supported mobile devices, but there also exist versions running directly on an operating system intended both for regular users and content developers, denoted with the Projector (or Standalone) and Debugger name suffixes, respectively. Flash Player runs SWF files that can be created by the Adobe Flash Professional authoring tool, by Adobe Flex or by a number of other Macromedia and third party tools. Flash Player was created by Macromedia and now developed and distributed by Adobe Systems after its acquisition.

flashplayer.exe Process

File details of most used file with name "flashplayer.exe"

Product:
Adobe® Flash® Player Installer/Uninstaller
Company:
Adobe Systems Incorporated
Description:
Adobe® Flash® Player Installer/Uninstaller 11.4 r402
Version:
11.4.402.278
MD5:
b0ea019b248ea226609d9fdb44e27893
SHA1:
efc390cba3fe6fe147a7db8d643d89a4de9c8a2f
SHA256:
acd72453c2727a43a1f58732a61806624b7bb062f79be23a8b490b3ffcd34abb
Size:
9573296
Directory:
%TEMP%\Iminent
Operating System:
Windows 7
Occurence:
High oc2
Digital Signature:
Adobe Systems Incorporated

Is the Process "flashplayer.exe" Safe or Threat ?

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14% of reviewed files are marked as Threat .
Latest new variant of the file with name "flashplayer.exe" was discovered 4046 days ago. Our database contains 13 variants of the file "flashplayer.exe" with final rating Safe and zero variants with final rating Threat . Final ratings are based on file reviews, discovered date, users occurence and antivirus scan results.
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User Reviews of the "flashplayer.exe"

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  • SAFErating from user MikeOne for file %TEMP%\DIQ\FlashPlayer_151\software\flashplayer.exe (Variant: 19304953)

    This executable is the main file for the installation package of the famous Adobe® Flash® Player:
    "Adobe® Flash® Player is a cross-platform, browser-based application runtime that provides uncompromised viewing of expressive applications, content, and videos across browsers and operating systems."
    For the Adobe Flash Player see more on http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer.html

  • THREATrating from user MikeOne for file %SystemDiskRoot%\ProgramData\FlashPlayer\flashplayer.exe (Variant: 19632765)

    This executable is the main file for the installation package of the famous Adobe® Flash® Player:
    "Adobe® Flash® Player is a cross-platform, browser-based application runtime that provides uncompromised viewing of expressive applications, content, and videos across browsers and operating systems."
    For the Adobe Flash Player see more on http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer.html
     In this case the file seems to be infected by Gen:Variant.Zusy virus. Scan is recommended.

  • SAFErating from user MikeOne for file %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\flashplayer.exe (Variant: 19707668)

    This executable is the main file for the installation package of the famous Adobe® Flash® Player:
    "Adobe® Flash® Player is a cross-platform, browser-based application runtime that provides uncompromised viewing of expressive applications, content, and videos across browsers and operating systems."
    For the Adobe Flash Player see more on http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer.html
     More info can be found on WIkipedia (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_player) :
    Adobe Flash Player is freeware software for viewing multimedia, executing rich Internet applications, and streaming video and audio, content created on the Adobe Flash platform. Flash Player can run from a web browser (as a browser plug-in) or on supported mobile devices, but there also exist versions running directly on an operating system intended both for regular users and content developers, denoted with the Projector (or Standalone) and Debugger name suffixes, respectively. Flash Player runs SWF files that can be created by the Adobe Flash Professional authoring tool, by Adobe Flex or by a number of other Macromedia and third party tools. Flash Player was created by Macromedia and now developed and distributed by Adobe Systems after its acquisition.