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When I seek to open Firefox it triggers a UAC prompt which may or may not be a spoof, and when I cancel the prompt my home-page loads off-center.

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I recently updated to Firefox 3.6 but a prompt told me to update my Adobe Flash Player. I tried a few times to follow the directions, but nothing matched or seemed to be happening. Then, a pop-up was on my desktop the next day which I thought was the next step or a step I missed. The pop-up said a newer version of Adobe Flash was available. Somehow I may have sought to download the offer, then canceled. For several days there was no problems. All was fine until ZA scared me into buying an offer which did not work well for me so I went back to what I had before I bought then returned their product. When I log on to the computer now and click the Firefox icon to go to the internet browser, the UAC prompt asks me to give Administrator permission to Adobe DLM to download a file "C:/Users/my name/AppData/Roa.../getPlusPlus_Adobe_reg.exe" This did not happen before I started changing my firewall and anti-virus provider back and forth. How can I eliminate the UAC prompt? Should I simply give Administrator permission and download the file? If it is legit, should I keep the file on my computer; and will I find there is an easy way getting it off? At the moment I am using AVG 9.0, the Windows Vista firewall is on, and I have a router. The odd thing about all this; I checked my programs I am able to uninstall and there I see is Adobe Flash Player 10 in the list of programs I have which was installed months before all this happened. If I already had the newest Adobe Flash Player, why would Firefox 3.6 tell me to update my Adobe Flash Player? More to the point, what is the best way to deal with this annoyance: The other user on this computer has no problem like my UAC prompt blocking immediate internet connection through Firefox.

I recently updated to Firefox 3.6 but a prompt told me to update my Adobe Flash Player. I tried a few times to follow the directions, but nothing matched or seemed to be happening. Then, a pop-up was on my desktop the next day which I thought was the next step or a step I missed. The pop-up said a newer version of Adobe Flash was available. Somehow I may have sought to download the offer, then canceled. For several days there was no problems. All was fine until ZA scared me into buying an offer which did not work well for me so I went back to what I had before I bought then returned their product. When I log on to the computer now and click the Firefox icon to go to the internet browser, the UAC prompt asks me to give Administrator permission to Adobe DLM to download a file "C:/Users/my name/AppData/Roa.../getPlusPlus_Adobe_reg.exe" This did not happen before I started changing my firewall and anti-virus provider back and forth. How can I eliminate the UAC prompt? Should I simply give Administrator permission and download the file? If it is legit, should I keep the file on my computer; and will I find there is an easy way getting it off? At the moment I am using AVG 9.0, the Windows Vista firewall is on, and I have a router. The odd thing about all this; I checked my programs I am able to uninstall and there I see is Adobe Flash Player 10 in the list of programs I have which was installed months before all this happened. If I already had the newest Adobe Flash Player, why would Firefox 3.6 tell me to update my Adobe Flash Player? More to the point, what is the best way to deal with this annoyance: The other user on this computer has no problem like my UAC prompt blocking immediate internet connection through Firefox.

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There has been a security update of the Flash Player and the current version is 10.1 r85 , so you are two versions behind (previous was 10.1 r82).

See http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/

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