[PLUG] ADBEFLPRCS3_WWE.exe

donkyhotay donkyhotay at verizon.net
Thu Oct 16 01:58:18 UTC 2008


Even if you don't find anything I'd be very hesitant to install that 
program if you found it semi-randomly off the internet. I believe it's 
been mentioned thats the installer for adobe flash (not the flash player 
but the flash producer), I happen to know from doing lots of installs of 
adobe software at work that ADBEFLPRCS3_WWE.exe is the name of the adobe 
flash installer (name is an abbreviation for Adobe Flash Producer 
Creative Suite 3 World Wide English) which is a proprietary program that 
costs a few hundred bucks full retail. All commercial adobe products 
(like this one) all require serial numbers for the activation checks, 
even the volume license (AOO) versions, and if it installs without a 
serial number it has *definitely* been modified. Now I don't care if you 
use a cracked program or not but generally cracked programs (especially 
really expensive programs like this one) usually have lots of malware 
hidden in them that can really mess up your system.



Rogan Creswick wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 3:46 PM, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net> wrote:
>   
>> Y'all have me at a disadvantage. I do not know what "running strings" means.
>>
>>     
>
> 'strings' is a program that searches it's argument(s) for printable
> characters.  Almost every file has some ASCII-encoded content that's
> still ascii-encoded, such as copyright notices, window titles, version
> numbers, etc.  Often the entire content of the Help->About window will
> be tucked away in a binary this way.  strings will pull that out so
> you can see it.  eg:
>
> $ strings ADBEFLPRCS3_WWE.exe
>
> --Rogan
>
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