Which anti-virus apps did you try using?Ĭlick to expand.Not sure if we're just referring to the same thing using different terminology or if it's just a matter where you're averse to doing maintenance tasks in you're Settings menu. (it'll probably be buried in submenus as Samsung tends to add various feature and alterations).Īlso, swf just isn't as popular anymore so it's mostly dated web sites that still use it, along with whatever left-over exploits that are still being spread around.
If there is and you can't remove it, try going into your Settings > Apps menu, find and open the Downloads app listing, tap on 'Force stop' and then find 'Clear data'. If not, try looking your phone's app menu and open up the Downloads app and see if there's anything suspicious there. Do you have any kind of video downloading app installed? If so try opening that app up and see if there's something 'stuck' there referring to that swf file. Instead of assuming the Youtube app itself is the source of the problem, look into some other possibilities. It also became a major security problem as it was used to compromise countless computers and mobile devices. Adobe has dropped active development of Flash and supports it only as a legacy matter, but in its day most web site multimedia content were Flash files. Given that swf is a file type for Adobe's Flash and Youtube moved from relying on Flash to HTML5 years ago, there is a likelihood this file isn't actually tied to the Youtube service at all.