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Chinese version of adobe flagged as malware

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I have been receiving reports related to the adobe flash version on some of my devices in china, so far the FlashHelperService.exe has a malicious signature and want to know about it.

Is it necesary to have this file in order to run adobe flash player?

At which point did this exe installed along with the adobe?

Thank you!

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jeromiec83223024Correct answer

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2144 is the official distribution partner for Flash Player in China. They are aware that the 2144 helper service is being erroneously flagged in various engines in VirusTotal (generally as AdWare, but classification is a vendor-specific choice), and are working to resolve that with the various vendors involved.

Please contact support@flash.cn directly for more information about the 2144 distribution available in China.

Thanks!

jeromiec83223024Correct answer

Inspiring

2144 is the official distribution partner for Flash Player in China. They are aware that the 2144 helper service is being erroneously flagged in various engines in VirusTotal (generally as AdWare, but classification is a vendor-specific choice), and are working to resolve that with the various vendors involved.

Please contact support@flash.cn directly for more information about the 2144 distribution available in China.

Thanks!

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nicka83306725

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So all 21 (up from 14 last week) VirusTotal vendors are erroneously flagging your software as adware? And all you can offer is a contact of your Chinese distributor?

This is not the responsibility of the consumer to clean up your distributor's injection of malware in your own product.

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Satinder S Bains

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Hello,

Please download the Flash Player from https://www.flash.cn/ for China.

Yes, FlashHelperService.exe is a necessary component to run Flash Player in China. It's installed during the installation process. Can you please share more details about "FlashHelperService.exe has a malicious signature"

Thanks

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Anonymous

Thanks, I downloaded the installation package from the official site, and i found that it isn't optional through the installation.

Searching the hash of my alerts:

d73ea76f6f07f96b337335213418b58e3fbc7e4b519fec0ef3fbd19c1d335d81

There is a report on Virus total about the file and the report shows the file as adware

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/d73ea76f6f07f96b337335213418b58e3fbc7e4b519fec0ef3fbd19c1d335d81/detection

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