Why does Adobe Acrobat 7 Standard secretly phone home?

[Tia B. McMahon]

How do I stop Adobe Acrobat from phoning home upon startup?

When I open any PDF document, my Windows firewall says
- ACROBAT.EXE, Process ID: 1111
- (Adobe Acrobat 7.0, Adobe Systems Incorporated, Ver. 7.0.0.1333)
- Attempting network activity.
- Do you want to trust acrobat.exe?
To which I always say no.

I've checked all the settings and can't figure out how to stop Adobe
Acrobat 7.0 Standard from phoning home, particularly:
- edit > preferences > updates
- do not automatically check for critical updates

How do I stop Adobe Acrobat 7 from constantly phoning home?

[Beauregard T. Shagnasty]

In alt.privacy.spyware, Tia B. McMahon wrote:

> How do I stop Adobe Acrobat from phoning home upon startup?

http://foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php

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[PDFrank]

Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
> In alt.privacy.spyware, Tia B. McMahon wrote:
>
>
>>How do I stop Adobe Acrobat from phoning home upon startup?
>
>
> http://foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php
>

How does Foxit keep Adobe Acrobat from phoning home?

[Beauregard T. Shagnasty]

In alt.privacy.spyware, PDFrank wrote:

> Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
>> In alt.privacy.spyware, Tia B. McMahon wrote:
>>>How do I stop Adobe Acrobat from phoning home upon startup?
>>
>> http://foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php
>
> How does Foxit keep Adobe Acrobat from phoning home?

Just in case that is actually a serious question:

1. You uninstall the bloated, home-phoning Adobe Acrobat Reader.
2. You install the slim, non-home-phoning FoxIt Reader.

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[Maximus the Mad]

PDFrank <pdfrank@some.com> after much thought,came up with this jewel
in news:35WdnVdCkL8PBLvanZ2dnUVZ_tLinZ2d@rcn.net:

> Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
>> In alt.privacy.spyware, Tia B. McMahon wrote:
>>
>>
>>>How do I stop Adobe Acrobat from phoning home upon startup?
>>
>>
>> http://foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php
>>
>
> How does Foxit keep Adobe Acrobat from phoning home?
>
Using add+remove programs,replace acrobat with foxit.
There is no stopping Adobe-resistance is futile.
Some pages require Acrobat(like TaxAct).
You could use a old version of Acrobat for those(I use V4).
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[Aandi Inston]

"Beauregard T. Shagnasty" <a.nony.mous@example.invalid> wrote:

>In alt.privacy.spyware, Tia B. McMahon wrote:
>
>> How do I stop Adobe Acrobat from phoning home upon startup?
>
>http://foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php

I think it's worth pointing out that the original poster is talking
about Adobe Acrobat, not the free Adobe Reader (to which Foxit Reader
can be compared).
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[John Adams]

Tia B. McMahon wrote:
> How do I stop Adobe Acrobat from phoning home upon startup?
>
> When I open any PDF document, my Windows firewall says
> - ACROBAT.EXE, Process ID: 1111
> - (Adobe Acrobat 7.0, Adobe Systems Incorporated, Ver. 7.0.0.1333)
> - Attempting network activity.
> - Do you want to trust acrobat.exe?
> To which I always say no.
>
> I've checked all the settings and can't figure out how to stop Adobe
> Acrobat 7.0 Standard from phoning home, particularly:
> - edit > preferences > updates
> - do not automatically check for critical updates
>
> How do I stop Adobe Acrobat 7 from constantly phoning home?

I use Foxit but all Acrobat is doing is checking for a new version.

[Rhonda Lea Kirk]

Tia B. McMahon wrote:
> How do I stop Adobe Acrobat from phoning home upon startup?
>
> When I open any PDF document, my Windows firewall says
> - ACROBAT.EXE, Process ID: 1111
> - (Adobe Acrobat 7.0, Adobe Systems Incorporated, Ver. 7.0.0.1333)
> - Attempting network activity.
> - Do you want to trust acrobat.exe?
> To which I always say no.
>
> I've checked all the settings and can't figure out how to stop Adobe
> Acrobat 7.0 Standard from phoning home, particularly:
> - edit > preferences > updates
> - do not automatically check for critical updates
>
> How do I stop Adobe Acrobat 7 from constantly phoning home?

There should be a setting in preferences. I'll look for it today when I
get to work.

If not, though, you can download this:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sys.../AutoRuns.mspx

or this:

http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml

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[Chilly8]

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"Tia B. McMahon" <mcmahon4@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
news:hqwVi.15854$lD6.6884@newssvr27.news.prodigy.n et...
> How do I stop Adobe Acrobat from phoning home upon startup?
>
> When I open any PDF document, my Windows firewall says
> - ACROBAT.EXE, Process ID: 1111
> - (Adobe Acrobat 7.0, Adobe Systems Incorporated, Ver. 7.0.0.1333)
> - Attempting network activity.
> - Do you want to trust acrobat.exe?
> To which I always say no.

Probably one of those "tattle tale" features, as I like to call
them, that report back to the company on all software
that is install, an anti-piracy feature, to make sure that
all installed copies of the product are legit.

[Sebastian G.]

Chilly8 wrote:


> Probably one of those "tattle tale" features, as I like to call
> them, that report back to the company on all software
> that is install, an anti-piracy feature, to make sure that
> all installed copies of the product are legit.

This feature was remove in Acrobat 6. Even further, you'd rather see the
Adobe License Manager Service doing so, not Acrobat itself (and neither
impersonated).