{"id":12345,"date":"2012-04-13T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-13T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=12345"},"modified":"2012-04-13T13:30:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-13T12:30:00","slug":"adobe-acrobat-update-service-and-adobe-flash-player-update-service-you-gotta-be-kidding-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=12345","title":{"rendered":"Adobe Acrobat Update Service And Adobe Flash Player Update Service, You Gotta Be Kidding Me!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you did the recent update for Adobe products, did you require a reboot?&#160; Wonder why?&#160; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/image6.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"image\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/image_thumb3.png\" width=\"604\" height=\"274\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Look what\u2019s turned up on my PC at work!&#160; I\u2019ve now got two services for updating a minor utility and a plugin that I cannot wait for HTML5 to kill off.<\/p>\n<p>Think about it: Adobe is one of the most attacked software vendors out there, and probably their products are the ones that I update most often on my own and work machines.&#160; Why the hell would I trust them to run a service on my computer?&#160; Hackers must love the presence of these services.<\/p>\n<p>I have uninstalled Adobe Reader (removed the Adobe Acrobat Update Service) from my work computer and switched to Foxit, a product that understands that it is a minor utility.&#160; I\u2019ve also disabled the Adobe Flash Player Update Service.<\/p>\n<p>BTW, we don\u2019t need an Adobe update service at work \u2013 we\u2019ve been pushing out Adobe updates via System Center.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:6701a243-3e7b-4a54-b465-4ab09f5f5040\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Security\" rel=\"tag\">Security<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you did the recent update for Adobe products, did you require a reboot?&#160; Wonder why?&#160; Look what\u2019s turned up on my PC at work!&#160; I\u2019ve now got two services for updating a minor utility and a plugin that I cannot wait for HTML5 to kill off. Think about it: Adobe is one of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=12345\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Adobe Acrobat Update Service And Adobe Flash Player Update Service, You Gotta Be Kidding Me!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[190],"class_list":["post-12345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security","tag-security"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}