In <news:[email protected]>,
[email protected] wrote:

> On Saturday, November 30, 2013 7:35:38 AM UTC+1, NoOp wrote:
> > On 11/23/2013 11:19 AM, Geoff Welsh wrote:
> > 
> > > NoOp wrote:
> > 
> > ...
> > 
> > >> Found the problem&  filed a bug report:
> > 
> > >> <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=942356>
> > 
> > >>
> > 
> > >> Both Firefox and Seamonkey put incorrect plugin information in
> > >> the
> > 
> > >> pluginreg.dat file. Note that the version information in both
> > >> files
> > 
> > >> incorrectly places commas, instead of periods, between the
> > >> version number:
> > 
> > >> SeaMonkey 2.2.0/1:
> > 
> > >> Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:25.0) Gecko/20100101
> > >> Firefox/25.0
> > 
> > >> SeaMonkey/2.22
> > 
> > >> Shockwave Flash
> > 
> > >>      File: libflashplayer.so
> > 
> > >>      Path: /usr/lib/adobe-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so
> > 
> > >>      Version: 11,2,202,327
> > 
> > >>
> > 
> > > 
> > 
> > > wow, good find!
> > 
> > > 
> > 
> > > guess someone was feeling European that day.
> > 
> > > 
> > 
> > > GW
> > 
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Ah, nice catch. I didn't even think of that.
> > 
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_mark
> > 
> > As Rob mentioned, perhaps an incorrect localization/locale setting?
> 
> I'd think it about ten times more likely that you have downloaded a
> malicious Flash plugin. The comma-replaces-dot thing is an age-old
> indicator of shenanigans. For the records, us "Europeans" use the
> exact same software version descriptors as anyone else.

The version string embedded in the so file from Adobe is
"11,2,202,327".  Why it is that way, I don't know.
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