02-06-2021 06:10 PM - edited 02-07-2021 01:26 AM

Method 1 - You can remove the time bomb on flash manually using a hex
editor program like HxD (https://mh-nexus.de/en/hxd/), searching the hex string
"00 00 40 46 3E 6F 77 42" and replacing with "00 00 00 00 00 00 FF 7F".
links: gist.github.com/KuromeSan/56d8b724c0696b54f9f81994ae3591d1
http://cache.tehsausage.com/flash/defuse.txt

Here are the paths of Adobe Flash Player ActiveX version:

C:\Windows\System32\Macromed\Flash\Flash64_32_0_0_465.ocx
C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Macromed\Flash\Flash32_32_0_0_465.ocx
The name of the files can be different, just check if it has the extension .ocx

Copy to the desktop, edit it from there, and paste it back again.
Before paste, close any application that uses flash, like Internet Explorer or HP
Solution Center.
You need administrator rights to paste into the System32 and SysWOW64
dir.

Method 2 - Or you can uninstall your current flash version using the uninstall
program from Adobe:
https://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/support/uninstall_flash
_player.exe
or download the archived
version: https://web.archive.org/web/20210202035540/http:/fpdownload.macrome
dia.com/get/flashplayer/current/s...

And then download the last Adobe Flash Player ActiveX version without the time
bomb (32.0.0.371):
direct link to the ActiveX version 32.0.0.371 hosted by
archive.org: flashplayer32_0r0_371_winax.exe
link to other
versions: https://archive.org/download/flashplayerarchive/pub/flashplayer/installers
/archive/
Install the file "flashplayer32_0r0_371_winax.exe", but if you are using Windows 8
or 10 you need to run in compatibility mode Windows 7.
To run in compatibility mode, you need right click the executable file -> select
Properties -> Compatibility -> Compatibility mode -> Run this program in
compatibility mode for: -> Select Windows 7 -> Then Ok. -> Execute the program.

Method 3 - Or download the last Adobe Flash Player ActiveX version (32.0.0.465)
from Adobe's site:
https://fpdownload.adobe.com/pub/flashplayer/latest/help/install_flash_player_ax.e
xe
or download the archived
version: https://web.archive.org/web/20210124174321/https:/fpdownload.adobe.co
m/pub/flashplayer/latest/help/i...

Install it, but if you are using Windows 8 or 10 you need to run in compatibility
mode Windows 7.

And remove the time bomb using a patcher like:

https://github.com/KuromeSan/FlashPatcher/releases
https://github.com/j-frei/HPFlashFix
or use other trusted patches around, or remove the time bomb manually using the
method that I mentioned above.

But remember, keeping a working version of Adobe Flash Player ActiveX

after the EOL leaves supported browsers as Internet Explorer and your
computer vulnerable to attacks using Flash applications. You can also
disable the extension of Adobe Flash Player inside the Internet Explorer.

Method 4 - Change your computer date before the EOL (2021-01-12).

But this method will allow other versions of Adobe Flash Player keep
working as Pepper Plugin Application Programming Interface (PPAPI)
and Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface (NPAPI), leaving
others browsers vulnerable to attacks if they still support Adobe Flash
Player Plugin.

Method 5 - Run your application using

RunAsDate: https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/run_as_date.html using a date before the
EOL (2021-01-12).