Re: Does Acrobat 7.x corrupt disk drives the way CS2 versions of other Adobe products do?

(1) Adobe does nothing to "corrupt your disk drive" and for that
matter, no other Adobe application does anything to corrupt your disk
drive. And Adobe applies no "rootkits" to your system. Where did you
get that misinformation from? The filenames you cite are related to
product activation, but said product activation does not use any
"rootkit" nor does it corrupt your disk. You may not "like" product
activation, but please don't distort what is actually done with it.

(2) Adobe strongly recommends that you not attempt to have multiple
versions of Acrobat and/or any combinations of Adobe Acrobat and Adobe
Reader concurrently installed. Although it is physically possible to do
this, the fact is that because they have interactions with browsers,
printer ports, and PostScript driver plug-ins, mulitple versions can
and will interfere with each other. Usually, but not always, the last
software installed "wins" so to speak. To "clean" your system, I would
first de-activate Acrobat 7, uninstall Acrobat 7, uninstall Acrobat4,
uninstall any and all versions of "Reader" and then reinstall and
reactivate Acrobat 7.

- Dov


Mxsmanic wrote:
A combination of factors have obligated me to "upgrade" from Acrobat
4.x to Acrobat 7.0.7 on Windows. I note the presence of the
mysterious Adobelm_Cleanup.0001 and Adobelmsvc.exe services in the
system. Does this mean that the Acrobat installer has secretly
written to my disk drive without telling me, in the same rootkit-style
way that CS products do?

Also, I now have Acrobat 4.x and Acrobat 7.x both installed on the
machine and running independently. Am I correct in assuming that I
can uninstall 4.x once I've tested everything out without breaking
anything on the machine? I purchases Acrobat 7.x as an upgrade, but I
don't know how it verifies the presence of 4.x (since 4.x was already
on the machine, I guess it probably took note of its presence--but if
I ever need to reinstall ...).

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