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Re: Adobe Acrobat file tries to open by itself

Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2011 6:40 am
by thewolfe
Nope, I use CodeStuff Starter and WinPatrol but I'll give it a try. What does it do?

Re: Adobe Acrobat file tries to open by itself

Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2011 1:24 pm
by thewolfe
I've installed Autorun. Now I'll wait for the renegade window to pop up. And place in Autorun I should be looking?

Re: Adobe Acrobat file tries to open by itself

Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2011 8:50 pm
by Krom
Autoruns just gives you a list of just about everything that automatically starts with windows / explorer / internet explorer and lets you disable them if you want. It is powerful enough to break a fresh install of windows so be careful what you disable.

Re: Adobe Acrobat file tries to open by itself

Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2011 9:00 pm
by thewolfe
Gotchya, thanks.

Not sure it's going to help since even when that pesky
window pops up I really don't know what to look for.

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Re: Adobe Acrobat file tries to open by itself

Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2011 9:03 am
by thewolfe
OK....another clue...maybe.

The window just opened up on my XP machine that's on my network and that I use maybe once a week.

Re: Adobe Acrobat file tries to open by itself

Posted: Thu May 05, 2011 9:19 am
by woodchip
Just a wild idea but have you contacted adobe about this?

Re: Adobe Acrobat file tries to open by itself

Posted: Thu May 05, 2011 9:38 am
by thewolfe
I haven't...never thought of that.

However, I did block the site with my Avast antivirus about 5 days ago and it hasn't popped up since.

Re: Adobe Acrobat file tries to open by itself

Posted: Sat May 07, 2011 12:18 pm
by thewolfe
Still no popups!

Solved - Re: Adobe Acrobat file tries to open by itself

Posted: Mon May 16, 2011 9:02 am
by thewolfe
And........still no popups! Avast must have done the job. Still surprised I couldn't find a way in Comodo Firewall to block it. Oh well, I've woken up and no bad dreams.

Thanks for the posts.

Re: Adobe Acrobat file tries to open by itself

Posted: Wed May 18, 2011 8:18 pm
by Isaac
I actually had a dream my computer had this problem after reading this thread. It was on windows 95 though.

Re: Adobe Acrobat file tries to open by itself

Posted: Wed May 18, 2011 10:36 pm
by thewolfe
Does seem like a nightmare and actually it was.

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