I would like to petition to Adobe to discontinue their manufacturing of Adobe Acrobat Updater or change it in such way(s), that will stop its virus-like behavior on Windows.
My experience: I have quit this fucker multiple times, and stopped the process. It re-enables again at startup and proceeds to nag. I've been dealing with computer shit a while now, working with many OS's, platforms, etc... I realize that quitting shit isn't enough when you are facing leet uber haxors like Adobe. I head over to the trusty service manager and locate this piece of shit. [b]After stopping the process, stopping the service, DISABLING it and rebooting[/b] those Adobe cunts thought it would be funny to re-enable this shitfunnel of a program. I just ran Hijack This (a program which shows a list of startup entries for Windows NT*, both user level and 'SYSTEM' level) and removed a few Acrobat related entries. After this thread I shall reboot and see if I am successful.
At this point, whether not I successfully manage to stop this junkware from running at startup doesn't matter. The bottom line is that it nags, doesn't have an exit or disable option, and [b]THERE IS NO WAY IN HELL AN AVERAGE WINDOWS USER WILL BE ABLE TO TURN THIS PIECE SHIT OFF[/b]. Adobe has really outdone themselves this time; they took advantage of the slightly limited ability of an average Microsoft Word person (who is usually 'laxed in terms of security and oblivious to clear as fucking day intrusions) by creating a do or die situation with their updates. All for what? Jack all, that's what. The only thing that receives an update in all Abode software 99% of the time is AMTLIB.DLL, which is often regarded as the appendix of Adobe's code. Stop piracy now? How about stop jerking my CPU with your useless triple-checked startups.
Who's in?
I've managed to disable it just fine. I don't see the process anywhere.
Did you do it through Abrobat itself?
Yes, that is an option that I forgot to mention. However, if information about an update that hasn't been installed yet was already retrieved, you must first click 'Install Update' before gaining access to the "Check for updates once a _____" window.
Basically, they're saying 'You can disable our updates... but first, install this update!!!"
Or SumatraPDF.
I just use the one built in into Chrome.
Next iteration of Firefox has it's own PDF reader built in. In fact, the current one has one too, it's just disabled per default settings.
I don't think chromium has a PDF viewer.
[QUOTE=TheCreeper;39204430]I don't think chromium has a PDF viewer.[/QUOTE]
Nope, it doesn't. I'm surprised they haven't made one, though.
Why is that poll the most biased shit ever?
[QUOTE=Amiga OS;39201976]You will be glad to know Windows 8 has its own PDF reader built in.
And why haven't you installed Foxit reader? its orders of magnitude better than Adobes shit.[/QUOTE]
I have foxit too. And the regular Adobe Reader. Acrobat came with CS. I should reinstall and unselect it I guess. That's a definate fix as well :P.
[QUOTE=tratzzz;39202224]I just use the one built in into Chrome.[/QUOTE]
All Readers either come with plugins for the popular browsers, or the popular browsers support them. Chrome is just framing whatever you have installed inside it.
I don't see a huge problem with Adobe Reader, it does what I need it to do, but if I'm using an OS or whatever that has a built in PDF reader then I'll just use that. I think any modern OS should have a built in PDF reader now
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