Although this campaign was very successful and helped establish Shockwave Flash as a dominant multimedia plugin, Shockwave and Flash became more difficult to maintain as two separate products. In an attempt to raise its brand profile all Macromedia players prepended Shockwave to their names in the late 1990s. If you need Shockwave, the latest version can be downloaded at /shockwave.Adobe Shockwave 8.00.205 Download Now Released: Size: 3.89 MB Downloads: 39,884 Rating: Tested: Free from spyware, adware and viruses Select Version of Adobe Shockwave to Download for FREE! Software VersionĪdobe Shockwave (formerly Macromedia Shockwave) was Macromedia's first and most successful multimedia player prior to the introduction of Adobe Flash, called Macromedia Flash at that time. If you find that the Shockwave Player is already installed, rather than updating to the latest version, you may want to try living without it. This, by the way, is exactly how Chrome treats Java applets. For some reason, the version is reported as 11.6.5r635 rather than 11.6.5.635, which is how Adobe refers to it in the security advisory.Īfter IE installed Shockwave, viewing the Adobe tester page in Firefox also reported that Shockwave was installed (so its not like Flash with different versions for different browsers).Īnd, Chrome continues to prove that it's the best browser for Defensive Computing.īefore running the Shockwave applet (is that the right word?) in the Adobe tester page, it asks for permission (below). I let it proceed and was then greeted by an ad for Norton Internet Security.Īfter declining the offer, Internet Explorer succeeded in installing the latest and greatest edition of the Shockwave Player (below).

And, it really should say, because 11.6.4 is bad while 11.6.5 is good. Which version of version 11.6, it doesn't say.

When Shockwave is not installed, Internet Explorer 8 prompts to install version 11.6. It fails to auto-install Flash, Java and Shockwave. This gives Firefox 12 a trifecta, at least on Windows. Fortunately, since this is a buggy, vulnerable version of Shockwave, the installation fails.

Clicking the button causes Firefox to try and install the Adobe Shockwave Player version 11.6.4.634.

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