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 laptop for subjective historical reasons, but I might
consider finally installing it here as well.
Igor
Mark Roberts Fri, 17 Jul 2015 10:18:54 -0700 wrote:
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 them is removed.
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:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Adobe\Acrobat
Reader\DC\FeatureLockDown]
"bUpdater"=dword:00000000
If you are interested, - you can read more about it here:
https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1809982
I disabled it via the registry for now, but it might be the time to
replace it with one of the alternatives (Foxit, Sumnatra, etc.).
I do not tolerate autoupdates, especially on my work machine.
I hope this information might be useful to some people here.
Alternatively, a few additions to your hosts file will work. Or use a
software firewall like ZoneAlarm to block outbound connections.
Personally, I use both approaches.
No software on my computer is allowed to "phone home". Period.
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