Re: Adobe Flash UpdateInstalls Other Warez without Consent

[Nick Boyce <nick.boyce () gmail com>]

On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 6:39 PM, Christian Sciberras <uuf6429 () gmail com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 2:09 PM, Jeffrey Walton <noloader () gmail com>
> > wrote:
[snip]
> > > Adobe now includes additional warez in their updates without consent.
> > > The warez includes a browser and tools bar. The attached image is what
> > > I got when I agreed to update Adobe Flash because of recent security
> > > vulnerability fixes.
>
> To the more reasonable readers, I guess Adobe could have had a genuine
> mistake / bug in their code....nothing new.

This has happened elsewhere recently - specifically with the once
rather fine Foxit PDF Reader - see this forum post :

http://forums.foxitsoftware.com/showthread.php?18193-Auto-updade-silently-installs-extra-software-overrides-user-choices
(12th.June.2012)

Foxit Corporation apologised within a week for the snafu, confessing a
misconfiguration of their upgrade servers.

> Don't know why it's such a big deal.

I tend to agree, given Adobe's stunning competence record with this
particular product :)

Nick
--
Any sufficiently advanced malice is indistinguishable from incompetence.

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