


My questiton is very simple: If I leave Adobe flash on my Windows 7 computer, after the Adobe flash is discontinued in early 2021, will I still be able to use Adobe flash simply to view these limited and/or print these type of documents, such as my bank statements and/or tax returns. I understand that Adobe flash will be discontinued by very early 2021. I don't use it at all to create or work on any documents. I only use it for very specified and very limited purposes, in particular, to view PDFs such as my bank statements and tax returns which I download on my computer. I have Adobe flash on my computer which is Windows 7. There's a well established playbook, and most of the big virtualization vendors have solutions. This is typically an expensive and cumbersome option, but it's not unusual for enterprises to need to maintain and secure support to legacy systems. The whitelist would be helpful in risk reduction here, but since most browsers will remove the supporting APIs, you'd need to encapsulate a working configuration and secure it appropriately. You might think about providing a virtualized, ephemeral desktop environment that allows users to access your software with a legacy software configuration on modern clients, while insulating your environment from risk.This would allow you and/or your customers to run the application unchanged, while still getting security and functional updates that keep Flash Player working. Your organization and/or customers could license and distribute a maintained version of Flash Player within their organizations.

Adobe AIR is EOL, but HARMAN maintains and distributes a copy of the AIR SDK that you can license.
