I have worked in support with these products for over two years, and in my personal experience - including direct contact with Kaspersky support - their restrictions are sometimes too stringent and have to be adjusted. As I have mentioned above, when the software was written it was written using an older version of the code for Flash, but that code is still backwards compatible with the Flash Player used to construct the console. It is using the new Flash Player to do this, but it is using the old language to speak to it. The information that is important are these key points :
1. Flash is a coding language and the Flash Player is used to construct that code
2. Flash Player is backward compatible with previous versions of the coding language
3. The coding language does not make the program a threat or malicious, but does cause it to be marked by Kaspersky
4. When Solution Center activates, those bits of Flash code activate due to the fact that the program is written in Flash
5. Since this program is older it uses an older version of Flash which as mentioned can cause it to be flagged
6. Adding an exception for a single program such as Solution Center will not endanger your computer or put your computer at any larger risk.
7. Adobe has flagged this coding language as having been used in malicious programs. However, because the program language has been used maliciously in some cases, that does not mean that all programs which use that language are malicious.
I hope this clears up any misconceptions about what I have written before and may lead you to again contact Kaspersky to see if their program is in fact blocking the program from executing which seems like it is the case due to the messages from the Kaspersky log that have been mentioned.
-Spencer
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