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tidied up disable auto update section; removed security reasons for upgrading to 9 as now out-of-date
== Disable Automatic Update dialog in Adobe Flash Player ==
It seems that Flash Player automatically checks in with adobe.com to the mother ship Adobe at regular bases to check see if there an updated version is an update available. And and if so, there is it presents a dialog prompting the user with a dialog asking if he wants to upgrade Flash to the latest version, which is what we don't want when the software is managed by WPKG. To prevent disable this from happening, update check and prompting you can do the following:
* create a file named "mms.cfg" (if you don't already have it for other flash settings)
* add an entry in this file: AutoUpdateDisable=1
* copy this file now has to %WINDIR%\system32\Macromed\Flash\ which can be added to the FlashPlayer installation directory during the install of the package. You can do this performed by copying WPKG using the file into that directory. Add the next lines to your Flash packagefollowing:Right after the installation:
<source lang="xml">
<install cmd='%COMSPEC% /c copy /y /v "%SOFTWARE%\FlashPlayer\mms.cfg" %WINDIR%\system32\Macromed\Flash\' />
</source>Right after the upgrade:<source lang="xml">
<upgrade cmd='%COMSPEC% /c copy /y /v "%SOFTWARE%\FlashPlayer\mms.cfg" %WINDIR%\system32\Macromed\Flash\' />
</source>Right before the uninstall:<source lang="xml">
<remove cmd='%COMSPEC% /c del /s /q "%WINDIR%\system32\Macromed\Flash\mms.cfg"' >
<exit code="0" />
</source>
Or Either you could can deploy this using WPKG as part of the Flash Player installer, or create a separate package for this settingwhich would allow you to deploy updates to this file separately to the Flash Player itself.
This file will prevent current and older versions of Flash from auto-updating.
=== Adobe Flash Player 9.0.246.0 for Firefox ===
You are encouraged to upgrade for security reasonsNote: http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb08this version is out-11.html and [http://www.adobe.com/support/security/advisories/apsa08of-08.html the click-jacking vulnerability] are both addressed in this update. It can be downloaded from [http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/406/kb406791.html here]date.
Installer packaged as an executable, installs as a plugin. Sometimes it is upgraded only on the second run of wpkgWPKG, it must be a timing issue between installing over previous version and checking conditions.
<source lang="xml">
=== Adobe Flash Player 9.0.246.0 for Internet Explorer ===
The same reasons for upgrading apply as for the plugin Note: this version above, and it can be downloaded from the same place. It is packaged as a out-of-date.exe file, so presumably  Presumably the Internet Explorer version has the same installation/removal/upgrade syntax as the plugin version above, but the following code has not been tested.
<source lang="xml">
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