DescentBB

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.

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

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.

Adobe must have taken lessons from M$

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.

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.

What use do you have for that many PDFs?

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.

program setting are in adobe , edit/preferences