Flash Player reg entry errors - false positives?

robl777

Recently my jv16 PT 2008 began showing 8 registry errors rated as 'Medium' level errors. jv16 PT could not remove them when I asked it to delete them. At the bottom of the jv 16 screen, it said 'Windows core returned the following error "Access denied or invalid key" Here is one of those keys and its values:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Interface\{2E4BB6BE-A75F-4DC0-9500-68203655A2C4}\@ : IFlashBroker

In searching the Internet for some answers, this same key shows up in the AdAware forums (Lavasoft software) as one that was flagged by the 2006 AdAware as a Trojan false positive that a company rep said they were going to fix. Those forum entries are here:

http://www.lavasoftsupport.com/index.php?showtopic=5284

Just like the people at the AdAware forum, I could not delete these entries even using Win's Regedit. It said the same thing as jv16 PT: "Access denied or invalid key"

Does anyone here know whether my jv16 PT 2008 Medium reg entry errors are also false positives? Or could they be legitimate Flash Player entries that Adobe and/or Windows will not allow to be deleted for a good reason? I do run the Flash Player in the latest version.

I am running WinXP MCE 2005 with IE7 (I use Firefox almost exclusively) and the Service Pack 3 installed. Win Media Player 11 is onboard also as well as Flash 9, newest version. The PC is an old Athlon 3200 on an Asus board that I built myself. The system is fully updated for Win patches. I did recently attempt to uninstall some old Flash Players that the Secunia Personal Inspector flagged as outdated and insecure. I used the Adobe Uninstaller but they remained per Secunia, so I went into the Win system32 section and deleted them. Secunia said they were gone, but now I have these jv16 errors showing up.

Any ideas from others re this matter?

robl777

Thanks to all who read my post. I resolved my problem with the eight Flash Player-related 'Medium' registry errors that showed up in jv16 PT 2008 after I manually removed some old Flash Player entries from the Windows System 32 folder due to the Secunia Personal Inspector telling me that these outdated Players were insecure.

I did it using Adobe's latest (April 08) Flash Uninstaller in Windows' Safe Mode. This uninstalled my current Flash 9 Player. Then I rebooted into Safe Mode and used jv16 PT 2008 to clean the registry. In Safe Mode, it was able to delete what it previously could not delete, the aforementioned undeletable eight Medium registry errors, all related to Flash Players.

As a final step, I reinstalled the latest Adobe Flash Player 9 in Safe Mode as well. I rebooted to the normal Windows mode, then ran the jv16 PT 2008 reg cleaner again. The eight undeletable registry entries were gone. I was happy to see these results, as I try to keep my registry in good shape.

So the final answer is that these were NOT false positives on the part of jv16 PT 2008, but WERE unfixable in Windows regular mode by either jv16, or by using Windows Regedit manually. It must be that Adobe works with the Windows software to make these registry keys off limits even to an operator who has administrator rights, but I am guessing here, not being a programmer, or Windows expert.

For the sake of information completeness, I run jv16 PT 2008 in its 'aggressive' registry cleaning mode, which is one notch less thorough than its most aggressive cleaning mode. My jv16 PT 2008 version is currently version 1.8.0.459.