Comments on: Adobe: The next hijacker

By: Kokil

Kokil — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:04:02 +0000

thanks, enjoyed reading this couldn’t figure out how to get rid of the UAC alerts myself (can’t disable those on my office PC). have a good day!

By: Norman

Norman — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:36:33 +0000

Thanks a lot, disable the bundleware DLM getPlus(R), adware that comes with the Adobe load of crap. Shame on you Adobe!! The company has to be in pretty bad shape to resort to advertising tactics like this

By: Jet

Jet — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:17:50 +0000

I stop using Adobe Acrobat Reader when it became so bloated. I heard a lot of positives about Sumatra Pdf. The Sumatra download file is ONLY 1.3 MB. Because it is light, clean and does not try to sell you snake-oil, it’s super-fast compared to Acrobat Reader. If you just need to read a pdf, give it a try.

By: J

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:20:09 +0000

Thanks Google that I used you before starting firefox again with this addon..

This article is really good!

By: Bill

Bill — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:10:45 +0000

A very informaticve and usful article. DLM crap about to be removed – thanks

By: Keith J

Keith J — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:59:24 +0000

Thanks for this.

I’ve just been round the loop – updating Flash was all I wanted. I then had to UNINSTALL all the rubbish it forced on me. Some McAfee thing (always very bad news – I don’t let McAfee near my PC), DLM (why do I need that?), Adobe AIR and Acrobat.com (no thank you, I will decide what I want on my PC, not you).

Maybe someone will post a link to a place where I can just download the stuff I want, not all the rubbish they’re trying to package with it.

By: haha

haha — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 05:48:28 +0000

Re: “I’ve read the Usenet discussion and don’t like the adware terms in “Use of PDF Files”. I hope they don’t do the same thing with Flash Player.”

Yeah, there is already enough advertising on the Internet as it is. I can’t imagine what it would be like if people started embedding ads in Flash files!

By: Huron Smith

Huron Smith — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:54:50 +0000

Many thanks for the heads up. I have just installed some of this stuff and now I’ve got to figure out how and what to uninstall. I know your post took a lot of work. Thank you so much.

By: jm

jm — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:34:38 +0000

Thanks for the heads up…I got an alert that although my Firefox was updated, my Adobe Flash player could cause security issues, so I should upgrade THAT. OK…no I don’t want McAfee Security scan…ok…upgrade..then it wants to install DLM? Whats DLM…do they mean DRM? So I found your site, and cancelled the DLM. I’m on U-verse, with Firefox…I don’t need no stinkin’ DLM

By: mikls

mikls — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 23:14:25 +0000

Got the same thing when trying to update flash player. Not only did I not update but I removed anything associated with Adobe. Using Foxit for PDF reader and will try to do without flash player for now. Will definitely look at Linux as an alternative.