Category: Geeks r Us
Whenever I try to go on a web page with both firefox and IE I get this warning dialog saying your flash player may be out of date, please update to continue. I can only press ok, and even if I press esc it still takes me to this page where it wants me to download this tiny little setup file I don't trust. There's no way of tabbing around or closing this tab to get to the page I want, and the address on the address bar is always the one of the page I'm trying to visit. I tried everything, even uninstalling and reinstalling firefox, resetting both that and IE, even did an anti malware and antivirus scan, nothing fixes this. A few web pages seem to work, but I can't go on most of them without this happening. Not sure what else to do. Help is very much appreciated.
Yep, you've gotten yourself a piece of malware that you can't scrub with a cleaner. Good thing you didn't activate the sequp though. Did you try to download something that shipped with a lot of toolbars? If so, you may have gotten this via a drive-by download, which is a download that you are not awar of. I think you might have the same malware I had, but I don't remember it's name; I'll look it up, though.
Check in your Add/Remove programs, and see if you have IncrediBar or some variant spelling thereoh; that's what I had, and it gave me similar issues.
I'll second this.
Can you go directly to adobe.com and install flash player?
You came to the Zone on this machine?
There doesn't seem anything strange in my installed programs. In the page it takes me to there's a link with instructions on how to uninstall flash player, I did that and the warning dialog changed to internet explorer being out of date, which it isn't, and still wants me to download this little setup file. I tried resetting IE and firefox, and now tnhe thing is back to wanting to update flash player. It let me go on the adobe.com website so I tried to install it from there, but that thing is still happening.
I hate technology.
Your hatred should be towards Windows, my friend; this is the main reason I made the jump to Linux.