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somehacker
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December 1, 2010
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Flash Downloader Using BitTorrent?

  • December 1, 2010
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Why?

Who thought this was a good idea?

Every single person in my organization is going to get quarantined from the network because someone thought it would be a good idea to handle updates using bittorrent. THIS WAS NOT A GOOD IDEA!

Please go back to handling updates the right way so that I don't have to spend weeks dealing with the monumental problem this is going to become.

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    Correct answer pwillener

    Flash Player is not available as BitTorrent download, at least not from Adobe.

    Please download FP (and other software) only from legitimate download sites!

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    jonman05
    Participant
    January 13, 2014

    Still to this day, Adobe is using bittorrent to handle updates! Why? This is a nightmare for our help desk since we block that traffic.  Users call our help desk daily complaining about the issue and we tell the help desk, "Sorry, but until Adobe fixes it they are stuck with what they have." 

    C_F_McBlob
    C_F_McBlob
    Inspiring
    January 13, 2014

    http://download.macromedia.com/pub/flashplayer/current/support/install _flash_player_ax.exe

    http://download.macromedia.com/pub/flashplayer/current/support/install _flash_player.exe

    http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/licensing/mac /install_flash_player_11_osx.dmg

    THOSE are the ONLY official Flash Player download links and they contain NO BitTorrent files, they use NO BitTorrent client, and the DO NOT come from anywhere but here.

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    jonman05
    Participant
    January 14, 2014

    Glad you pointed that out Mike but you missed what I was saying.  Somone needs to explain why Adobe uses Bittorrent to UPDATE Flash Player after it has been downloaded.  I never said anything about Adobe using Bittorrent files to DOWNLOAD FP. 

    pwillener
    pwillenerCorrect answer
    Legend
    December 2, 2010

    Flash Player is not available as BitTorrent download, at least not from Adobe.

    Please download FP (and other software) only from legitimate download sites!

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    somehackerAuthor
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    December 2, 2010

    Nevermind then.

    Thanks for the fast response.

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