OT - Oops, they did it again.. - Adobe

2015-07-17 Thread Igor PDML-StR
[rant] Adobe seems to be on a power-play streak. We recently discussed their new arm-twisting decisions about LR and pushing people into the Cloud. I just discovered that the new Adobe Reader DC has the autoupdates enabled by default and the option/preference to disable them is removed. The

Re: OT - Oops, they did it again.. - Adobe

2015-07-17 Thread Mark Roberts
Igor PDML-StR wrote: [rant] Adobe seems to be on a power-play streak. We recently discussed their new arm-twisting decisions about LR and pushing people into the Cloud. I just discovered that the new Adobe Reader DC has the autoupdates enabled by default and the option/preference to disable

Re: OT - Oops, they did it again.. - Adobe

2015-07-17 Thread steve harley
On 2015-07-17 11:05 , Igor PDML-StR wrote: The only way (unless you are willing to install some additional crap from Adobe) to disable autoupdates is to create a new register key value: on Mac i use Little Snitch to block such things temporarily or permanently -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List

Re: OT - Oops, they did it again.. - Adobe

2015-07-17 Thread Igor PDML-StR
Mark, Yep. I actually had a bunch of Adobe entries in the hosts file, but, apparently, Reader DC uses yet some different host/set of hosts. I was surprised that it started auto-updating itself this morning. Thanks for the reminder, zonealarm is a very useful tool. I don't have it on this