I get the Adobe Flash Player popup every time I click on a thread at DU HEEELPPPPPPP!!!!

[elehhhhna]

Thanks

[Cleita]

1. If you are trying to play a video, I believe

it's telling you that you need the adobe flash player to see it. If you want to see the video then you need to download it.

[BlueState]

2. That has been happening to me.

I was getting the Adobe Flash Player installer pop up as if I needed to upgrade to the lastest version. I did allow it to install and
have the latest version but it kept happening. I made it stop by doing the follow in Internet Explorer

Got to the Tools menu and choose -> Manage Addons.

Locate "Shockwave Flash Object" and right click to disable.

This is workaround I suppose. I haven't determined why it is happening. I've been on the internet for a few days and haven't noticed the lack of this add on.

[madfloridian]

3. That shockwave error happens all the time here to me. I have it disabled in add-ons.

But it doesn't seem to matter. I have the latest Adobe player, but I still get the error message.

Sometimes I have to switch to IE and then it quits.

[elehhhhna]

11. It woudln't let me upgrade! But your advice worked!!!!!!!!!

thank you!

[onehandle]

4. Uninstall Flash. The Internet is much better without that dinosaur of a format.

Flash is also a primary malware conduit.

[DURHAM D]

7. I am having the same problem as the OP

and tried to uninstall it yesterday. It says it can not be removed.

[elehhhhna]

9. mine, too - but I disabled the shockwave as told above and I think it worked!

[onehandle]

10. Ah. I wonder if it is a Google banner ad that is causing this.

Both you and the OP don't have stars.

[DURHAM D]

12. I was trying to figure that out too but

don't think that is the issue.

otoh - I do need to get my star back but have not gotten around to it because DU has not been busy the past few days and I don't need to use Advanced Search or any other missing features.

[mucifer]

5. I got it to go away by turning off then on my computer.

I have an mac air

[elehhhhna]

8. braggart

lol

btw it stops when I turn off my laptop. It only happens when the laptops on and while on DU.

[kelliekat44]

6. Happening to me also on my laptop. There ought to be some kind of fine imposed on Adobe. nt

[TheCowsCameHome]

13. I get it, too.

It's a royal pain in the ass.

[MANative]

14. Same thing happened to me last week. The fix...

Download and install the latest version of the flash player. If you're using Firefox, you can go to your plugin manager page to do that. Close your browser. Restart your computer. Launch your browser. That fixed it for me with no further recurrence.

[Coyotl]

15. DU advertisers you Flash. Go directly to Adobe.com for all updates. Malware uses these.

There have been some malwares ceated using these pop-up windows from Adobe, esp. for Macs even.

NEVER update your computer using a pop-up window.

[mockmonkey]

16. I mentioned this is Computer Group

You can try turning off the updates

Go to YouTube
Find any Youtube video and right click on it.
Left click "Global Settings"
That will open Flash Player Settings Manager
Choose the Advanced tab
Left click "Change Update Settings"
Click on "Never Check for Updates"
Close box

I have no way to know if that works. Could you try it and let me know? I don't use IE but I did open it and clicked around DU but I haven't had an issue yet.

You would then have to manually check for updates.

[mockmonkey]

17. Try this

In IE go up to "Safety" by your address bar and click on it. Make sure there is no mark next to ActiveX filtering. That hopefully will fix it. Thanks to DUer packman. Let us know if that worked.