Cancelled WU last week / Adobe Flash

Last week I created No Patch Tuesday Today http://community.norton.com/en/forums/no-patch-tuesday-today and ALF60 created New Adobe Flash Player 24x http://community.norton.com/en/forums/new-adobe-flash-player-2400221

I hadn't realised until today that included in last week's patches was a fix for a critical update for Adobe Flash, said to impact Internet Explorer and Chrome.

Now I've read many threads here and also created http://community.norton.com/en/forums/flash-win10-can-be-disabled Jan 2016 and http://community.norton.com/en/search/site/flash%20updates?f[0]=is_uid%3A987593 December 2016. First we were told by Microsoft that we had to turn on/turn off the 'Third Party Application Component' via Tools > Internet Options to get Flash Updates and then we were told (as far as I can recall) we didn't need to do that anymore because in a WU, Microsoft had created some kind of 'embedded' Flash Updater.

If my recollection is correct - and I appreciate that that's a big ask - then it seems to me that those with Flash are being left until the next Patch Tuesday on March 14th for Microsoft to fix a critical security hole.

Have I read it right? (Don't suggest that I use Chrome instead because that's affected as well!)

PS Given yet  another opportunity for hackers, perhaps we'll see more fake Adobe Updates, the kind that install nasty Trojans.

Problem solved! Thanks to the intervention of the much-respected Kosh Vorlon on the MS Community I'm pleased to have evidence that Microsoft does have Flash software 'embedded' in Windows 10.

In this Technet article http://technet.microsoft.com/library/security/MS17-005 is a sentence "The update addresses the vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash Player by updating the affected Adobe Flash libraries contained within Internet Explorer 10, Internet Explorer 11, and Microsoft Edge."

And further proof is the fact that after I'd posted, this KB4010250 Update was auto-installed "Security Update for Adobe Flash Player for Windows 10 Version 1607 (for x64-based Systems)"

I'm so glad this is over now. I received poor advice on my thread in MS Comm - "you may have compatibly problems - you should use Silverlight". That was from a Forum Moderator and I really thought it was me. Much relief now!

Hello

Microsoft has also released the Monthly Malicious Tool for February via Windows Update.

Thanks.

Microsoft has released a flash player update for windows 8,8.1 and 10 on IE 11 to get run  windows update KB 4010250 at 5:00PM EST 02/21/2017

While the majority of security patches won’t be released until March’s Patch Tuesday rolls around, Microsoft has taken the decision to issue some Flash patches for Edge and Internet Explorer, and these will be arriving today.

https://betanews.com/2017/02/21/microsoft-issues-some-windows-security-patches-in-february-after-all/

Hi Taffy here is a list from Microsoft up date catalog  with the last updates for adobe flash player with downloads note the last date on the list is January 12 2017    from http://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/search.aspx?q=3214628    check your windows update installed update list for KB321628 as this is the last flash player released from Microsoft

FWIW ~ my Firefox & Chrome are at Flash Player 24.0.0.221