Flash Yukle
Evagret Homestead
Analyzer works in conjunction with flash player and unfortunately, there is no possible way out here. We have analyzer similar reporting and managing tool called GMS which also uses flash till version GMS 9.2 and this is fixed from version 9.3. With analyzer the latest version is 8.5 and it doesn't work without flash.
The replacement for Analyzer is Analytics 2.5 on prem with Syslog, soon to be updated to 3.1 I believe, not sure why SonicWall have not told you this, N.B. afaik this is only for Virtual appliances ( Hyperv & ESXi ) not Windows.
I know there is the manager in the Utilities folder, and you can uninstall it with that. But this does not look scriptable to me. And I need a deployable method as there are about 300 Macs with it on.
Has anyone tested this yet? Here are some questions I have about this:
Does this block flash content from running in browsers? If not, how would I go about doing that?
Does this script need to be run on a continual basis? It seems like its based on the logged in user so it should run continually whenever a new user/different user is logged in? Maybe have it set to run "Once per user"?
Anyone have anything to report about their experiences with this?
@sanbornc
With no Flash player installed, Apps like Safari will not run any Flash content. However Google Chrome has an inbuilt extension for running flash content, for us this is not turned on by default so Chrome will ask each time to run the extension. If you are running Google admin to manage your google accounts, you can use that to stop the extension from in there.
I've created a smart computer group to show how many Macs have Flash installed, luckily for us we have just moved to Jamf so all our Macs have pretty much been Erased therefore we only have a small number of Macs with Flash installed (Mainly my test Macs). For my settings on the Flash smart group i've used Application Title is Adobe Flash Player Install Manager.app and this has pulled back all Macs with Flash installed.
does anyone know if the rtroutron adobe flash player uninstall script is 100% silent? should the adobe flash player popup appear if a user is logged in at the time the script runs? logged in on another test laptop to see if this popup happens again .
@tcandela It was 100% silent for me. The check portion at the bottom is probably what you're seeing when the install manager is running. I used an extension attribute to determine if it was installed and created my smart group based on that data.
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It's possible that the player is generic, and the file/stream it is playing is being passed in as a param. Grep the webpage source code for "embed"/"swf" or text that's near the flash object on the page. Then look at the contents of "param name"/"param value"
Firebug for Firefox, and the Google Chrome Developer Tools (built-in to Chrome) can show every HTTP request performed by the browser. They sometimes reveal URLs such as these.
In Firefox, install Firebug (no restart), start the addon by clicking the bug icon (use customize to make it visible - but it should be by default), start the stream, and in the Firebug window click Net tab and then All, maybe refresh the video page. The url should appear when putting the mouse over the line that says something like "GET video", right click on the URL and Copy location.
Fiddler2 is a great tool for this. Think of it like Wireshark but for HTTP specifically. It will reveal exactly what your browser is doing. It works by setting itself up as a local HTTP proxy. Point your browser to it and it will reveal all of the connections that are made and what data is transmitted.
As seen from the many answers there must be many ways to do this, but maybe one of the easiest way to go is to take advantage of a Firefox addon like DownloadHelper addon, which has also the advantage of being available on all OSes.
I discovered this when using the other solution, presented below, Internet Download Manager, in order to capture a such video stream: it displays the link but when trying to select it by clicking on it, IDM selects the URL without the last part start=0 (as seen in the image below). But many URLs can be opened in VLC with that last part too.
In Windows, Internet Download Manager is able to sniff such streams and capture them. Again, I find it easier to use in combination with a Firefox addon, FlashGot, but IDM can also be used alone with any browser. When ready to get the video, IDM displays the URL:
If you 're not necessarily needing it as a stream in real time, you can use DonwloadHelper for Firefox. It lets you store the file behind the stream of offline viewing or viewing with any program you like.
I'm having a bit of an issue here; I'm currently running my OS off a Solid State Drive, and Flash Player keeps storing any media (Be it Megavideo or Youtube or anything Flash-streaming related) on the OS drive. I only have 2,19GB of space to spare on the drive, and each time I watch a video longer than thirty minutes in 1080p quality, I need to refresh the page/restart my browser halfway in order to not run out of space on my OS drive.
If you'd like to consider switching to Firefox, then you'll also have the option to download the file to your local machine by using an Add-on and then watch it from there instead of online. That way, you can save the file to your other storage media such as a SATA hard drive. I use this one for Youtube: -US/firefox/addon/download-youtube/?src=userprofile
Thank you for your response, but it seems there might have been a slight misunderstanding about my question; I was wondering if it were possible to change the cache location for media downloaded/streamed from sites such as Youtube to a different volume instead of the volume my operating system is on.
I'm asking myself if you're confusing Streaming Media with Progressive Download. In the case of the latter technology, the movie is downloaded to your system progressively so that you can then watch it from the cache stored on your hard drive. You can usually choose where to save it to before you start viewing it.
Streaming media used by companies like Youtube on the other hand is data which you watch in real time. The parts which you've already watched are discarded so that there's no question of the file clogging up your system.
Youtube seems to use a combination of what you've just specified. Whenever I watch a video, the rest of what's already been downloaded remains on my harddrive until I visit a different page/refresh the page/skip ahead to a part which hasn't downloaded yet.
Ouch. That's not very much considering that Windows 7 x64 flavour needs 20GB all on its own. Add to that approximately 2GB worth of patches since its inception and you haven't got very much space left after installing drivers, security apps etc.
Also, 1.5GB seems a bit on the hefty size considering the compression used for Flash files. For example, in the screenshot, you can see details of a movie on Youtube which has a duration of 1hr 27mins. Yet the size of the file is only 255MB.
You need either an extra harddrive, other than the system drive, or lots of ram (16G's) and a ramdrive application. Anyway, have a spare non-removable drive ready, partition it and give it a letter, lets say letter T:, if you don't already have one. D: works fine as well.
If Temp won't delete, you need a fresh OS restart and make sure there are no running applications which have some file already open there. Sysinternals Process Explorer will allow you to see and close handles per application, in the Find Menu, just enter Temp and it will list all open handles, just those that have the type File you will be to close, Del key or right clock > close handle. This is in case a restart won't clear the issue.
Users\your_user_name\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer is also a common IO cycle waster, there thumbs for folders, including images and file stack icons are set. This can also be moved this way to same some space and flash erase cycles.
This is so that you can manage and dictate locations without being forced to use in-application settings, which might get reset, lost or not work. Some of the locations mentioned above could have been set in their respective applications but I've already posted the reasons why not to use that and go for symbolic links instead.
Also Adobe informed that FlashPlayer is unsupported, also Adobe has inserted an "autokill" in Flash Player packages to auto disable; all distributed updated most common browsers are currently not supporting FlashPlayer anymore.
- use flash player old version that does not have "autokill", so flashplayer_32.0.0.371 is fine but if your PC already has flashplayer you can wipe it using deinstall software and then find on the web the "flashplayer_32.0.0.371" version and install it.
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