Flash Player with IE8 problems
I have Vista 64 bit and McAfee security suite. The system came with IE8, and has been running Flash Player
until Tuesday. Now I get the white box with the little red x. It says I don't have FP and should download it.
Also, embedded pictures in e-mail do the same.
When I started IE, my homepage is yahoo, a box appeared that said 'A problem occurred, the page would restart'.
When I clicked ok, a file started to download and ran a setup program. McAfee normally asks if I want to allow this,
but not this time. It created a folder in Program Files X86\e-set. The scan started id'ing everything as a threat and
I should click on 'fix'. I couldn't kill the program, I couldn't delete the .exe. I was able to rename it, but when I tried
to soft boot the scan id'd taskmgr as a threat. I cycled power and the scan didn't restart.
I found a malware scan on MS support and downloaded and ran it. It also removed a file named Rogue fakesystem32.
That's when I started to have these problems.
I can't remember the name of the bad scan, but it said it was created by Heavenstools.
I downloaded a beta version of 64 bit FP, but after reading this board, I checked and it was in SYS32 and not in
SYSWOW64. I copied them over.
The MS scanner removed the the problem software. Everything else works, I'm
using the PC now. FP works in FF and Google browsers.
I can't run any player on IE, Youtube, EBAUMSWORLD, newspaper crosswords
etc.
McAfee did nothing on the malware. I ran a quick scan AND a scan on the
e-set folder itself. I can't remember how or where I found the MS scan. It
was on MS/support.
I've tried getting into Adobe on the other browsers too.
Les H
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