In September 2020, the OS maker released the KB4577586 update packages that would remove all traces of the Flash Player app from Windows devices. Microsoft realized this would be an issue last year. While Microsoft and the other major web browsers removed the Flash Player plugin from their browsers' source code, Flash Player code is still installed at the OS level. Today, Adobe does not release any kind of software updates for Flash Player, meaning the app is the equivalent of dead code sitting on Windows computers around the globe and is ripe for exploitation by hackers and malware operations. The move comes after Adobe formally deprecated Flash Player, which reached its end-of-life (EOL) on December 31, 2020. Microsoft plans to eliminate a major security risk by removing all remnants of the old Adobe Flash Player app from Windows operating systems by July 2021, the company said last week.
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