Beware of good programs behaving badly

Users of popular software programs are increasingly discovering that programs which are otherwise very useful are acting in a totally unacceptable manner. Note the following examples: Adobe Reader can create 257 unique folders under c:\programdata\adobe\arm\reader_11.0.00\<username> each containing the exact same four executables: Acrobatupdater.exe Adobearm.exe Adobearmhelper.exe Readerupdater.exe What is particularly striking about this is that every folder contains the exact same programs as verified by the programs MD5 signature. These aren’t updates, but rather duplicates of the same programs. What is even more peculiar was this exact same folder structure, complete with executables also existed under C:\users\all users\adobe\arm\reader_11.0.00\<username>\ This results in… [Continue Reading]