Alternative Flash Player Auto-Updater is a a software updater for Adobe’s Flash Player. Flash is one of the key technologies of Web 2.0 – you can find it nearly everywhere. Commonly used technologies are always a main target for malware authors – Flash Player is not different. Adobe frequently releases security updates to fix the latest security vulnerabilities.

However, Flash Player’s out-of-box updater uses long time intervals between update checks. Most endusers do not bother to configure the internal updater – they run outdated Flash Player versions. That is an extremely underestimated security risk!

Alternative Flash Player Auto-Updater was developed to offer an easy to use application for inexperienced endusers who do not want to bother with updates. It can install updates with no user interaction required and thus keep your system secure without bothering you.

Alternative Flash Player Auto-Updater offers many features for single- and corporate users like automatical update checks with a custom time interval. Also, it allows corporate users to use a remote configuration and thereby avoid configuring every single client.

Features:

Even works if no Flash Player is installed on the system (offers download)

Works on Windows x86 and x64 (32-bit, 64-bit)

German, English and Spanish (automatically detects the system language)

Can work completely hidden (except notifications when updates are available)

Users can choose to let it start with Windows

Works behind a proxy server and with different administrator credentials (these are encrypted in the configuration file)

an use a global configuration file for network environments

Changelog:
New Feature: Auto-update for application updates
Improvement: Added support for Windows 8 (no update possible at the moment)
Improvement: Quicker update check
Improvement: Removed the “show password” options to improve security
Bugfix: Removed unnecessary error messages due to a lack of credentials
Bugfix: Installing from previously downloaded installers did not
work properly
Bugfix: Administrator credentials did not always work properly

Limitations: Requires .NET Framework 3.5 + installed.

Change Info:
Bugfix: Setting “use local update path” did not work properly Bugfix: Properly detects the IE Flash Player version on Windows 8 Bugfix: Throws an exception if started without elevated rights and User Account Control is active Bugfix: Does not download IE Flash Player on Windows 8 anymore Bugfix: All files are digitally signed