Adobe you son of a bitch worthless fucking software company

So I updated my flash player on firefox and in addition to having to install that getplus plugin rather than being able to directly install the damn plugin, I get the New York Times Reader installed.  Fuck you Adobe, you don't get to install more programs on my pc.  Best part for me, no opt out.

Absolute bullshit, I am going to be adding your Times Reader to our corporate blocklist, auto quarantine.  I think it is beyond lame that iTunes wants to install bonjour and Safari, by default on updates, but thus far neither of those has been known to completely compromise systems.  Adobe your software has and continues to be the weak link in the web chain as far as vulnerabilities are concerned.  You

Yet another reason to boycott Adobe

I don't hide my dislike of Adobe, but this article about persistent flash cookies that are not cleaned with the remove cookies option makes it clear to me that Adobe does not have its customers needs in the forefront of their mind. I have not been using noscript because it was sort of tedious to approve portions of new sites as I came to them but I am starting to think it is time for the tinfoil hat to go back on.

Lifehacker via Wired

Adobe to the front of the vulnerability line (again)

Adobe is quickly becoming the thorn in my side, I cannot stand that they do not offer an enterprise patching solution. I am starting to think that I need to find a non-Adobe product to use for sending documents. I could choose xps, at least vulnerabilities in that can be patched via automatic updates and WSUS. I was going to abstain from Silverlight too, but I am starting to think if Air+Flash+PDF become the defacto, or even widely accepted, I am going to have to roll my own Adobe auto-update deployment utility. If only Adobe would put the latest msi of all of their products out on their site, I would be able to to push it via group policy.

Adobe it is time to grow up, you power many businesses, Microsoft actually requires that contracts be sent via PDF rather than fax as a "green initiative" for some of the dealings I have had with them(in fairness the contracts in question sometimes are hundreds of pages and they redo them daily as the event gets closer). You need to offer an enterprise console that allows me to point my client machines to a update server. I would prefer that it could be run on any port, and just run as a standard web service, that I can schedule update checks, and silently install them on my users machines. This is your responsibility, and you have avoided it for way too long.