Tuesday, October 28, 2008

[THIN] Blog Post: Preventing Adobe Flash, Shockwave and Adobe Acrobat Reader from AutoUpdating

When you set up mandatory profiles for your users or you want to limit access on a computer that is a locked down workstation one of the greatest frustrations are programs that inject their own autoupdate feature and constantly go out and check and try to install updates whether you want them or not. Then when users without proper access try to load the updates they fail and get frustrated prompting a help desk call. Adobe Flash, Acrobat Reader and Shockwave are such culprits.  Read more at the below link on how to disable autoupdate:

http://kenzig.blogspot.com/2008/10/preventing-adobe-flash-shockwave-and.html

Jim Kenzig
Blog: http://www.techblink.com

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