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What do you reckon? To me, that sounds closer to a virus than anything else. This app cannot be disabled, the web is full of people complaining and begging Adobe to get rid of it, it’s installed secretly (the user is not informed it exists, let alone asked if they want it), and it has NOTHING TO DO WITH the actual app I installed. stolen my internet bandwidth when I’m on 3G modem, costing me money, and preventing me from using my own machine.caused it to overheat to the point of hardware damage (laptop emits a screeching noise – that’s the hardware’s “emergency shutdown” warning).For information about the latest version, see the Release Notes. Updates can be installed as described below.

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Empty the Trash (just in case it tries to run while hiding in the Trash – should be impossible, but with the back-door hacks Adobe’s already doing, you never know…) Install updates for Acrobat and Reader Last updated on Also Applies to Reader Adobe recommends that users update to the latest version to take advantage of security and stability improvements.

Should be in an “Adobe Utilities” folder (if they had the chutzpah to call it “Adobe Viruses” I’d at least give them some credit for humour and outright shamelessness :)).

Adobe recommends that update to the latest version to take advantage of security and stability improvements. Last updated on Also Applies to Adobe Acrobat XI. With OS X Lion, I’m now trying again with a new approach (through trial and error this seems it might work – but I’ll update this in a few months if the virus still hasn’t come back) Manually update Adobe Acrobat installation. This setting configures Reader since 10.1, but note that the key is not created until a value is specified via the UI. Details: The update mode is a machine level setting that cannot be set on a per user basis.

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This is just an fyi for you guys to cleanup your software. Specifies the Reader Updaters update mode for Adobe Reader 10.1 and later for example, manual or semi-automatic. that is not cool, needless to say I will not install. I previously used this tip from 2010 to remove the virus, while still using the Adobe software installed on my machine, but it no longer works. I downloaded the standalone adobe reader from your web site When I scan fiel on virusTotal it gets flagged as containing a virus. I want to kill the damn thing completely.Īdobe just doesn’t seem to get the message: the latest version of Adobe Acrobat Reader puts a NEW virus(*) on your desktop, and all the old methods for removing it … don’t work. This would prevent you from visiting Adobe’s sites – but would prevent the evil Adobe Updater trojan from downloading – but it will still keep TRYING to run.

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One friend suggested hard-coding the address of all Adobe websites into your “hosts” file, and blocking them. How to Recognize XMRigecause the XMRig CPU Miner is a Trojan, it has been made to look like an Adobe Flash Player update, which is an often-targeted software.

I’m still trying to find something that does.