If there was detection of Flash Player on your Mac, the information below will show you how to remove it. The process involves downloading an uninstaller program from, closing any applications that may be in use on your Mac that use Flash Player (such as web browsers, for example), and then restarting the computer. Before getting started, make sure you have the correct permissions to download files to your Mac, and save any unsaved work in your open applications.
The following information about how to uninstall Flash Player from Mac pertains only to Mac OS X 10.6 and later. Consequently, that means this information is only for Snow Leopard, Lion, Mountain Lion, Mavericks, Yosemite and El Capitan users. The uninstall program from Adobe referenced in this article is specific only to these Mac OS X versions. If you’re not sure which version of Mac OS X you are running, click the Apple menu, and choose About This Mac.
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The Mac OS X version will display in the About This Mac dialog. A new Flash Player dialog will open. Double-click the Adobe Flash Player Uninstaller icon to run the uninstaller. You may see another dialog open that warns you that “Adobe Flash Player Uninstaller” is an application downloaded from the Internet. Are you sure you want to open it? Click the Open button.
A new Adobe Flash Player Uninstaller dialog will open. Click the UNINSTALL button. Input an administrator password if prompted to allow this program to run. If you had any doubts about whether the uninstaller would run if you ignored the part about closing the open applications that use Flash Player, you will see this dialog: Once you close the conflicting applications, click the Retry button to continue.
When you see Adobe Flash Player was removed from your system, click the Done button. Once the uninstaller has completed, you will need to attend to some directory clean-up. This involves navigating to these specific directories on your Mac, and manually deleting them./Library/Preferences/Macromedia/Flash Player./Library/Caches/Adobe/Flash Player 7. Finally, to complete the process, restart your Mac. Once your Mac has restarted, open a web browser to. You may have interest in these helpful Flash Player articles.
Ugh, another Flash exploit?! That Adobe has confirmed “a major security vulnerability that affects all versions of Flash for Windows, Mac, and Linux.” Adobe says this vulnerability is being used by hackers, although for very targeted attacks—phishing, in other words. “Successful exploitation could cause a crash and potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system,”. Well, that’s just great., which discovered the flaw, says that targets are receiving phishing emails with URLs that look like news articles, sent to “several foreign affairs ministries from around the globe.” I don’t work for a foreign affairs ministry and you might not either, but nothing is stopping other hackers from taking advantage of the same flaw. We all like to think we’re smart enough to avoid phishing scams—and I’m sure you are! And we’d like to think Adobe will get this patched soon—the company says it hopes to do that next week. But if you really want to be safe from this flaw, and the next, and the next, and the next, there’s one foolproof step you can take: Uninstall Flash.
How to uninstall Flash To get Flash off of your Mac for good, you’ll need. There are distinct versions for OS X 10.6 and later, for 10.4 and 10.5, and even one for 10.1 to 10.3.
Find the uninstaller for the version of OS X that you have. (If you aren’t sure, just click the Apple logo in your menu bar and select About This Mac. The popup window will say.) Click its link to download it to your Downloads folder. When you launch the uninstaller from your Downloads folder, it runs, and you have to click Uninstall. Just in case you launched the uninstaller but didn’t want to uninstall anything, I guess. After you enter your account password, you’re prompted to close all your browsers. The uninstaller can do that, or you can quit them yourself.
The uninstaller will do its thing and let you know when it’s done. Once it’s finished, Adobe recommends you delete a couple of folders from your Library too.
To open your home directory’s Library folder, go to the Finder, click Go in the menu bar, and then hold down the Option key to make the Library folder appear in the drop-down menu. Open it, and then find and destroy these two folders: /Library/Preferences/Macromedia/Flash Player /Library/Caches/Adobe/Flash Player (Note that Adobe’s instructions don’t include deleting those folders if you are running Mac OS 10.1 to 10.3.
Most of you are probably on 10.4 Tiger at least by now.) If you want to make sure it’s really gone, go to page and click the Check Now button to check if it’s on your computer. If you ever want to get Flash again, just. It’s a terrible idea to get it anywhere else. Do you use Flash, or have you kicked it to the curb once and for all? Sound off in the comments!