
My question : Should I be getting updates for Shockwave Player, and am I right to ignore the Adobe Flash player updates that seem legitimate. Maybe it was from Microsoft but I Xed out the warning quickly so I'm not sure where the warning came from. Security as it wasn't so marked and it didn't popup in the right corner of my taskbar as Norton warnings do but filled the whole page.

I don't believe this was from My Norton Internet With one of these popups a warning came on that this was a malicious site and not to update. However, I noticed I have been getting Windows security updates for the Adobe Flash Player, which is not installed on my computer but no security updates for the Adobe Shock wave player.Īlso I've been getting every so often here lately popup requests to update the Flash Player which I don't have. The Adobe Shockwave Player 12, version 12.1.7.157 is listed in the Progams section of the Control panel and I understand from some reading I've done that you don't need both the Adobe Flash Player and Shockwave player as the Shockwave is used more for gamingĬomputers. I understand this computer is good for gaming, although I haven't used it much for gaming. There are Adobe test pages for each so you want to make sure that AFP succeeds and the other ASP fails to play.This April I purchased the following noitebook computer: HP Envy M7- N109DX Notebook. If this is accurate can someone get Firefox to name things correctly, AND if article is accurate let this be a warning to others that they NOT use ASP, but as needed rely on AFP. My Firefox is working, but this confusion of calling things by their proper (or at least a unique name) seems crazy to me. Mozilla Firefox users should note that the presence of the “Shockwave Flash” plugin listed in the Firefox Add-ons section denotes an installation of Adobe Flash Player plugin - not Adobe Shockwave Player. According to this security alert web article ASP is far less secure than AFP which itself isn't great. Adobe various websites and now seemingly Firefox seem to continually confuse and obscure things regarding the two different Adobe Players (Adobe Flash Player AFP and Adobe Shockwave Player ASP).
