Hello, I periodically am having an icon appear on my desktop that looks just like the Adobe Flash Player installer.Get Deal How to tell if your Mac has a virus I always throw it in the trash and empty the trash because my Flash Player is set to update automatically so I believe this is a fake installer. #Adobe flash player malware removal mac update I have run the free version of Malwarebytes while the flash player icon is on my desktop, and it says my computer is clean. I tried uploading the file from my desktop and it doesn't show up as an option to upload from your 'choose files.' button. Name & Extension has a greyed out 'Flash Player' When I select 'get info' on the Flash Player icon on my desktop, it says: So then I dragged and dropped the icon from the my desktop to the 'Insert other media' box, and what appears looks like a series of images to me. 'Ignore ownership on this volume' is greyed out and has a check mark.

My System Preferences for Flash Player are set to 'Allow Adobe to Install Updates'. #Adobe flash player malware removal mac install When I clicked on the check for Flash Player updates button it says I'm up to date. My question is: Is this icon on my desktop a virus or malware? I have NPAPI Plug-in version 32.0.0.142 installed. I apologize in advance if I'm posting this to the wrong subforum. I just want to help by providing a copy of this sketchy seeming file. The JPG screenshot is called 'Fake Flash Player Icon?.jpg' I have taken a screen shot of the icon and have uploaded it using the 'choose files.' button. That's totally fine to move my post if its in the wrong location. I was trying to post a sample of the actual suspected malware, but I understand from your reply that I didn't succeed in doing that. When I uploaded the Flash Player installer icon from my desktop to this site, I dragged that one installer icon from my desktop to this site, and suddenly there were 16 png files attached to my post. I don't understand why that happened but the 16 files must have been somehow nested within the installer icon. The Flash Player installer icon on my desktop that I dragged and dropped to this site looks like the screenshot of it that I also uploaded here (the last image attached to my original post). So I only uploaded 2 images but 17 images appeared. #Adobe flash player malware removal mac update.#Adobe flash player malware removal mac install.

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