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by m4tthumphrey 1985 days ago
The limitation doesnt seem to involve communication with Adobe servers; its appears to be based solely on the machine time. I suspect that the Flash player on OPs machine has been connected to the internet and updated Flash Player at least once in the last 3 years.
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dhekir 1985 days ago
Indeed, the laptop has been disconnected for days. I (or, more precisely, Windows) inadvertently updated to a more recent Flash version containing the "time bomb", so now the application simply checks the system date and decides whether to block it or not.

If I could "sandbox the clock" for this specific application, that might work, but I don't think that it is possible.

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MzHN 1985 days ago
As a disclaimer I have to say I haven't used this (yet), but it does sound a lot like what you need.

https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/run_as_date.html

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dhekir 1985 days ago
Genius! Good to know it exists, if I need it one day.

For now, I tried patching the timestamp in the binary as suggested by jtvjan, since I saw it before your post. It works, so I'll stick with it for now. But I'll be sure to try this RunAsDate when I need something similar in the future.

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