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• #UNINSTALL ADOBE FLASH PLAYER INSTALL MANAGER MAC CODE#

If you want to uninstall it, uninstall Flash Player. To wrap this up, in all likelihood, everything is fine.

#UNINSTALL ADOBE FLASH PLAYER INSTALL MANAGER MAC CODE#

There's an insane amount of controls over how code gets signed at Adobe - as you can imagine, signing keys are the keys to the kingdom, and are tightly guarded, with mediated access where everything is logged and audited - and there are revocation and expiration mechanisms that ensure that if the keys were ever stolen, we could invalidate everything signed with them to prevent someone from publishing content that indicates that it's legitimate and from us. Sealed Resources version=2 rules=13 files=37 (JQ525L2MZD)Īuthority=Developer ID Certification Authority Here's what it looks like on my codesign -dv -verbose=4 /Applications/Utilities/Adobe\ Flash\ Player\ Install\ Manager.appĮxecutable=/Applications/Utilities/Adobe Flash Player Install Manager.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe Flash Player Install Manager or Adobe Systems Incorporated on older versions that pre-date the company's recent name change. Depending on the version you have installed, the hash values might change, but it should be signed by Adobe Inc. Here's what a legit copy looks like on my machine.

On Mac, you can verify the code signing certificate on that file from the terminal. Ĭode signing provides an authoritative, cryptographically secure way to determine who created a particular binary (a.k.a non-repudiation), and validating a code signature inherently confirms that the copy you have is a bit-for-bit match for the one that was signed and shipped by the author. There's a super straight-forward, authoritative way to answer the "is this file legit?" question. We really want to drive the population down so that people are discovering and resolving issues now, instead of over the holidays, when nobody will be around to help.Īnyone can name a file anything, so filenames are absolutely useless in terms of determining legitimacy or safety. There is a helper utility that handles automatic updates, and now, as we reach the end of life for Flash Player, is encouraging you to uninstall before the last possible day. The uninstaller will not remove copies of Flash Player embedded by the browser, such as Chrome. The uninstaller will run silently in the background. Folks, let's not guess and make spooky assertions about security questions. Due to Flash Player's end-of-life at the end of 2020, machine's with Flash Player installed will get a notification to uninstall Flash Player.