Acrobat Reader Auto [virus] Update

[Sergeant Thorne]

I was viewing a PDF document from an internet link, and Acrobat brought up an auto-update suggestion window. Feeling I had put it off for long enough, I tried to add "Adobe Reader 7.0" to the "Selected" list. After a moment of fiddling with the buggy, blinky GUI, I managed to select it from the "Available" list, and clicked "Add ->"--only to see not one but two items put into the selected list...



And, as you can see, the "Yahoo! Toolbar" selection couldn't be removed.

[De Rigueur]

I got that, too, yesterday. Annoying. I just went to adobe and manually downloaded the update w/o the yahoo thing.

[Top Gun]

When I updated to 7.0, I didn't have the toolbar option. That was just a week or two ago. As a side note, 7.0 actually seems to have sped up the loading process; it's much faster than the bloated bulk that was version 6. The program's still a royal pain; I wish there was away to stop that idiotic update box from always popping up and wanting me to download those other two software packages.

[Cuda68-2]

Adobe must have taken lessons from M$

[Kyouryuu]

You mean you're just now finding that out?

I try to stay with Acrobat Reader 5 or below when I can. There's zero reason why we need to upgrade every other week just to read their PDF format. It's like prompting a user to upgrade mouse drivers.

[Top Wop]

Ive stayed with 5 until recently because I use the new 7.0 PDF format for compression. Being able to take a 50 mb file and compress it to 9 mb does wonders when you have 35 GB worth of them.

[Sergeant Thorne]

What use do you have for that many PDFs?

[roid]

something i've been installing recently has been prompting me during install to also install the yahoo-bar.

it's one of those "Install Yahoo bar? [X]" checkboxes that comes already checked - you must uncheck it, so it's easily missed.

i can't remember what program it was that it came bundled with.

[suicide eddie]

program setting are in adobe , edit/preferences