Only a few days left until 31 December, the day on which not only 2020 but also

will end Flash support from Adobe . This is the inevitable end to a long road to a smooth transition, and now Adobe has started notifying Windows users 10 that the program will no longer have any support starting from January 1st 2021 .

Flash has represented for years a serious problem in the security of client systems and gradually the web has distanced itself from it thanks to the emergence of more modern, standardized and safer technologies. Taking note of the security problems and the now established spread of HTML5 open standards, Adobe announced in July 2017 the end Flash support for 31 December 2020.

As the fateful date approaches, Adobe has eliminated what will historically be remembered as the latest Flash update, released on December 9th, is “scaring” users to dissuade them from using the software. Starting from 12 January 2021, however, there will not be much choice: Adobe Flash Player and all related plug-ins will no longer play any content .

Adobe started broadcasting alerts on Windows 10 reminding users of deadlines and advising them to uninstall Flash Player. The program, even if unused, could still be exploited by malicious people to remotely access a PC, and the risk can only increase when the program no longer receives security updates.

Microsoft, in any case, has already put into account a measure for the automatic removal of Flash . In fact, an optional update will be released over the next year that will take care of this operation. However, this is a measure that only affects the version of Flash that Windows itself 10 installs automatically and for this reason users will still have to manually uninstall other Flash Players, unless the various browser manufacturers decide to take a similar path to that of Microsoft.