I uninstalled "Acrobat Reader DC = malware". Reputation of Adobe CRISIS
I just uninstalled Adobe Acrobat Reader DC on suspicion he was causing a problem of operating system on my PC, that Adobe Reader DC behaved like malware.
If I have correctly identified the question I came here to ask for because if I, the reputation of Adobe is subject to take a dip of a small crisis, but this is just warning so that Adobe can fix things and save his reputation until it was too late.
I am running Microsoft Windows 8.1 on a HP desktop PC.
When I uninstall Acrobat Reader DC I think installation date was January 14, 2016 - a few days before.
The symptoms were that start menu text style "Home icon" was not popping up as it should. This meant that I couldn't access the functions via the start menu or even shut down my PC as usual.
I could still access the start menu of Pseudo - touch button and through that I was able to access the PC - update and recovery settings and I was seriously considering a "refresh your PC without access to your files" involving removing dozens of applications and a lot of work to make my PC works again, but it would have been a panic measure then I studied deeper.
I found a suspect through the Task Manager. Via the menu 'Details', I found that a file with the name of 'RdrCEF.exe' used about 8% of the time processor and had monopolized an extraordinary amount of memory. I note the figure, but it may have been something like 2 GB, certainly much more data than any other process listed in the Task Manager.
I used the "Search online" feature to discover this "RdrCEF.exe" has something to do with Acrobat Reader DC and search results of online discussions said that claims he had problems with malware, something to do with sending data to Amazon or something.
Online research identified the location of the "RdrCEF.exe" and I was able to track down to this folder -
C:\Program Files (x 86) \Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader\AcroCEF
At this point, I started to get a bad feeling Acrobat Reader DC and decided to uninstall.
I can still read my PDF files on my PC after you have uninstalled because Windows 8.1 has a simple PDF reader, it offers up to.
Internet Explorer and Chrome are able to read PDF files on the internet also.
My PC now seems back to normal, but it's still the early days.
It seems to me that a cloud of suspicion has descended on Adobe because of what is happening with Acrobat Reader DC, my operating system crash and I guess I'm not the only one who came.
So this looks to me to a crisis for Adobe, either on it or imminent and I trust we PDF file readers can expect an emergency response?
Thanks for your response, Claudio but looks like I was mistaken on my suspicions about Acrobat Reader DC causing a problem with my Windows Start menu 8.1, what problem is back today, long after that I uninstalled Acrobat Reader DC.
Sorry Adobe if I made a false alarm.
I'm going on the occasion of this question 'answered' and go back to trying to diagnose what's wrong with my operating system.
Tags: Acrobat
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