The scheme is straightforward: when browsing sites, a Mac user sees an alert stating that their Flash Player version is out of date and a newer build is required to view different types of multimedia content.
It originally emerged because, at some point, malware distributors chose this popular and once-critical software as a decoy element of their malvertising hoaxes. The saga involving fake Adobe Flash Player update notifications has been haunting Mac users for years and is gradually starting to loosen the grip.
If an Adobe Flash Player Uninstaller notification pops up on a Mac, it could be either a legitimate dialog or a knock-off one obfuscating malware infiltration.
