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XP SP3 downgrade the Flash Player

Update: Apparently SP3 doesn’t downgrade the player. It’ll only install an older version 9.0.115 if you don’t have the latest 9.0.124 already installed, according to this blog post from Ryan Stewart. More info here.

The latest Windows XP service pack 3 comes bundled with the old 8.0.24.0 version of the Flash player. This version, beside not being able to play back some of the latest web content, has some major security flaw, along with a weaker security model and some other bugs.

If you apply this update to your windows system, make sure you install the latest Flash player from here.

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This entry was posted on Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008 at 8:41 am and is filed under Flash General, Flash Security, Security. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

5 Responses to “XP SP3 downgrade the Flash Player”

  1. Flashmattic says:
    June 3, 2008 at 9:45 am

    ???? ???????? ??, ??? ??? ???? ??? ?? ??????? ???. ??? ?????? ?? ????? ?? ????? ?????? ????? ??? ???? ??? ?? ???? ???? ????? ?????? ???? ???? ?????? ????? ?? ????????? ???-??? ??????? ??????.
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  2. Flashmattic says:
    June 3, 2008 at 9:47 am

    Whoops… sorry about the Hebrew mate. :)

  3. guya says:
    June 3, 2008 at 10:31 am

    I recall that wordpress comments were multilingual, I wonder what happened…

  4. Ryan Stewart - Rich Internet Application Mountaineer » Does the Windows XP Service Pack 3 Update Force a Downgrade of the Flash Player? says:
    June 3, 2008 at 4:39 pm

    [...] tipped me off to this blog post about Windows XP service pack 3 actually downgrading the version of Flash on the users computer to [...]

  5. escee says:
    June 4, 2008 at 8:03 am

    who still uses windows? i thought windows’ obsolesence had become analogous to that of the VCR… no?

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