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Arc insists on installing outdated Adobe flash player!

monkeybone13monkeybone13 Member Posts: 4,640 Arc User
A while back I had found in my Firefox>Add-ons>Plugins an outdated version of Adobe flash player. The info for it showed the file name. So after doing a search for the file on my computer I found it was in the Arc plugins folder. So I deleted it and Firefox no longer showed the extra outdated plugin.

Several days ago Arc went to update when I launched it but immediately gave me an error saying 1 or more files are missing or corrupt and the client needs to repair itself. So I thought nothing of it.

Today I was looking at my browser plugins and found this outdated flash player. I searched my PC for the file and found, again, that it was in the Arc plugin folder. So I deleted it and my browser no longer showed the outdated plugin anymore.

After this I went to launch Arc and got the error message again saying it had missing or corrupt files. After letting Arc repair itself I went into the Arc plugins folder and sure enough, the file that is an outdated flash plugin was back and my web browser was showing it again. :angry:

Adobe flash player version that Arc insists on installing: Shockwave Flash 16.0.0.235
Current version of flash: Shockwave Flash 18.0.0.160 (checked for updates before posting this and this is the most recent version Adobe seems to have available)

Location in Windows 7 64bit: C:\Program Files (x86)\Perfect World Entertainment\Arc\plugins
File name: NPSWF32.dll

What has been happening since Arc reinstalled this outdated flash player: Every time I exit the game I get a Window's message saying the game client stopped responding with the option to find a solution and shut it down or just shut it down.

Someone had mentioned Arc using outdated flash a while back. After deleting the file a while back it didn't return and everything was fine until a few days ago.

Edit: Yep. Deleted the file in the Arc plugins folder and again when launching the client it says "Some files are missing or corrupted. Your Arc installation will now be repaired."

Edit: removed angry stuffs
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