Recently Adobe has instituted a new process of letting users know about a new update. Although when I first saw this, I thought I’d gotten some kind of virus or Trojan. I must say that I’ve seen these types of fake updates in the past from Fake update warnings to fake Youtube sites. So you must understand when this popped up, I thought this was scam of some sorts.
What is the AdobeARM.exe Process??
According to Some, this process is “Adobe Reader Manager“. What really bothers me about this process is that Adobe has said nothing in their customers about this update feature that they have implemented into Adobe Reader. I’ve Googled the process and I can’t find anything from any Adobe employees on the first page. You really have to dig to find out what the process when it comes to Adobe’s new update feature. Other sites that you go to suggest this is a virus and encourages you to download a Rogue Antispyware software. The Fake antivirus software are starting to get their hands on how to scare people into installing fake scareware into their systems.
Will there be a time when I shouldn’t Update??
There will always be times when you must consider these pop ups as being fake or trying to get you to install fake software for nefarious reasons. You best bet is when these guys pop up is to the source and update manually. This way you know what your downloading and need not worry about installing anything that might be a rogue update. I would go to Adobe Website directly and download the newest update. You can go to http://www.adobe.com/downloads/ and download them manually. This seems the best option for most people.
How can I get rid of this process??
You can follow the instructions from the forums from Adobe to get rid of the process and it’s registry keys. All I know if the malware authors haven’t started to use this, they soon will. I suspect people should be cautious of this type of update and think twice before installing anything that you can not see where it is being downloaded from.
So I have an Windows 7, for two months and would like to talk about some security thoughts that I would recommend to anyone who has a 64 bit system.
Now it is true that 64 bit systems are a little more secure or I would call less exploited because of how many people actually are using 32 bit systems and not 64 bit system. So the virus and exploit writers are focusing on the 32 bit system but sooner or later 64 bit system will become main stay. I am sure it will happen in the coming years, just not sure when.
So I want to talk about just what you should have installed and why you should have some type of security with your 64 Bit systems. I am sure I can hear people asking me about the 64 bit drivers for these programs. I am here to tell you about my experiences with Windows 7. To be truthful, the drivers for programs have been very easy to find and not anywhere hard to use for Windows 7. I have SuperAntiSpyware, AVG 9.0, ZoneAlarm Pro, and Malwarebytes running on this system at any given time.
I also will recommend people use Internet Explorer (64 bit) version if you plan to not have another browser installed:
Now I know I can use the 32 bit browsers and use the Adobe player but I am quite surprised that they are Adobe is taking it’s sweet time with 64 bit support. There are ways to work around it and you can try the 64 bit beta version but that seems to not work so well. I would think Adobe would want to make sure they can keep Windows 64 secure by releasing the player for 64 systems. I can only hope they release it quickly and fix the problems that are associated with it before hand.
I will be talking about it more in the coming months, but if you want to check out my suggestions they will be available at the bottom of the blog entry.
June 23, 2009trademarks | Posted by Paul Sylvester
So we have it here right now, and it starts out really good. You can watch Stargate SG1 Season 1 through 4 the whole summer. The last of the Mohicans was the frst movie they brought out for this event. I rember last years one where we had to guess the coming week. Some of the ones that I did last year were:
Now I don’t know all that will come this summer but I would of liked to have clues like we did last year. That would of been really fun. Oh well, I will keep watch on this and see what comes from this. I also have been using the Hulu Desktop more and more, it seems to work well with A600 Cricket modem really well. For those who have it, I would suggest using the lowest quality of playback for using it. It really isn’t bad quality for watching shows and such on. You really don’t have to worry to much about buffering. Although you should check your settings on the player and change them.
On a side note this week and next I will be really busy so I don’t know if I will update as much as I have in the past. This is summer afterall so it might be off and on this summer until everything goes back to normal in the fall. I will update the blog when I can this summer, so don’t you fret to much!!
Adobe might also hire new workers within Europe, he said. The cuts will be formally announced on Dec. 15 when the company releases its fourth-quarter financial report.
This is another technology company to lay off people, there are some talks that it would be around 600 workers on some blogs. Others are just talking about the Management shakedown, and some workers are going to be moved around. I don’t know who is going to be laid off, or if there will be a tremendous amount of people who will need to start looking for a job. I do know that Adobe is looking for ways to cut cost, and I expect they are having problems just because of the Recession. If you want to check out other jobs that have laid people off, just click this link.
Adobe also announced the implementation of a restructuring program, and has taken steps to reduce its headcount by approximately 600 full-time positions globally. The restructuring will result in anticipated pre-tax charges totaling approximately $44 million to $50 million. The Company expects approximately $28 million to $30 million of the restructuring charges to be recorded in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2008.
This the press release for Adobe and I wanted to share with you what they said. So it is confirmed they want to get rid of 600 people. Sad to hear, but that isn’t the only layoffs in the industry. If I find out anything else I’ll let you know!!
Just saw this on the net, thought people would like to know where to get the information for the latest updates to shockwave. Some stuff that they improved upon are:
New [3D effects]
New [Custom filters and effects]
New [Advanced text support]
New [Dynamic sound generation]
Updated [Drawing API]
Updated [Hardware acceleration]
And much more
Brought to you by Adobe. To see all the features of what is new with Shockwave 10 please click link.
October 17, 2008trademarks | Posted by Paul Sylvester
I had a Friend tell me his system detected this Trojan GENERIC11.BEOG. I did my research and right now. It looking like Adobe added something to there recent updates *see updates below*. I’ll Have to check with some other sources but it looking like AVG over did it again and found something that might just be an AVG issue. (correction)
I usually wait before updating something like adobe. It is sure to be some minor change to adobe but if your are worried here’s the link to watch and see what people are asking or talking about this false positive:
It seems that AVG is calling this possible virus but yet it looks like it is a false positive. So don’t you worry. If it was a true virus you’d probably would never know!!
*UPDATE*
I installed Adobe 9.0 and updated the virus scan database for AVG. It hasn’t found any thing yet but I am still scanning my system. I’ll let you know if it finds this false positive on my Vistamachine!! I’m doing this to test it out!!! Come back later to find out the results of the test. (if you like this website by all means google this website so it too can be on google trends. I want to see it be up on google trends for a day or two.)
*UPDATE #2*
Just did a whole system scan. It did not find anything. So I will be doing a reboot and scanning again. It might be something that is attached to a PDF, if you went to a malicious website. So I will do another scan.
*Update #3*
I just rebooted and almost finished scanning with AVG. I still haven’t found anything wrong. I have did some more digging into what might cause it. I just did a look registry look up on {AC76BA86-7AD7-1033-7B44-A90000000001} and I found out something really interesting. It’s a PDFFile_8.ico File. This is tells me this is an Icon for the desktop. I’m using one of the examples from Malwarebytes Security Forums to try to figure out what might be infected.
Here’s what AVG said after it finished scanning my system:
So I must assume that it is neither Adobe or AVG who have anything to do with this. I will have to say that it must be a real infection as to not having any viruses after an install of Adobe. How do you get this type of virus. Check out my article on :Some Important programs to prevent yourself from having viruses and Malware!!
There you will find some useful tips on how not to get infected and other useful tools to help restore you system to it’s glory days.
So I will tell my friend to do a full virus scan and double check the results. I can’t replicate the so called virus but I am sure there is something going on with the HASH files of the AVG Database and something might be coming back from the adobe install that has the same HASH files. That also might be making AVG flag it as an Virus or Trojan. I might never know though.
I having successfully installed Spaz and use it with the Twit Army. I’d figure I would talk about how to get Spaz to work like Twirl. It’s a very simple way but some people seem to having trouble. This will only work with Vista or XP and I am not sure about Linux or Mac. I’ve been successful doing this with a Vista Premium Machine. It seems to be really easy to use and not take up to much of your desk space.
Download and Install Adobe Air — (You will need this to installed first.)
Download and Install Spaz — (This is the main program)
Once install you will need to go to:
Go to the [ Preferences ]
Go to [ Other Services]
Put this in exactly as shown (see example)
Go to [ Networking ] (optional)
Put this in exactly as sown (see example)
>
Doing this should get you connected to the Twit Army. I am not sure why it says “ERROR : Server returned invalid data” When you first start the program but if you wait a couple seconds you will see that it will eventually loads up. If you have any suggestions or comments please feel free to leave a comment.
If your have been having problems with Flash Players stoping after 2 seconds of playing. I have a few ideas to try to get rid of the problem. It used to happen all the time with Vista in the early days. Here’s what I did to occasionally get the flash player to work:
Cleaning out the Prefetch Directory! — Having seen this from time to time. If you have programs startup that might need to be refreshed this will refresh them so that they run like new. You occasionally can get programs that will load in a odd way and this will fix that also.
You want to be more anonymous? — Cleaning out your cache on your browser can sometimes fix the problem. It’s like anything else it can sometimes be corrupted.
Adobe Flash tips and Tricks! — Also having found this out. Adobe actually keeps the flash video on there servers cached or sometimes somewhat buffered to help with playback. Clean the cache out at the source sometimes fixes the problem also.
Now having used some of these tricks to get flash players to run has on occasion worked for some strange reason or another. Although I don’t know if this will fix the 2 second playing video problem I get the feeling it should since in theory it has everything to do with cache and corruptions of the files. If you can come up with some other tips or tricks to fix the problem let me know!!
July 24, 2008trademarks | Posted by Paul Sylvester
Having been using Hulu for the last few months, I’ve had to tweak the Flash Player and I’d thought I share some tips to get your movies and shows to run smoother on some systems. I will say this, it is not some times the system but the connection to the Internet. Bandwitdth, for some shows are sometimes the hardest part of getting to watch the show.
From time to time, Check for updates:
Having updates will sometimes resolve the most common issues with the Flash player. I’ve had that happen in the past, a certain version would not work right with my system. After updating on those occasions, I’d be ready go!! So here’s the website to go to download and install the latest version:
Adobe seems to not want to tell you if you have the lastest version. So I’ve got a schedule to check it ever month and see if I have the latest version. How can you figure that out? By downloading and installing. If you’ve got the current version then you do not have to install it again!!
Put more access on storage!
Currently we have Terabyte hard drives, so we can have the system store more information on our hard drive. I’m not saying that does not come without some security risk, but I do have a better time with streaming video. By making more space available for the flash player to use, you can sometime cut down on connection speed and reliability. I’ve had instances that once I’ve changed the amount of space for a website, I’ve gotten better video and watching experiences. How you may ask by doing two things:
Going to your favorite video website > Run a video > Right Click on Video > Click Settings
Slide the bar to where you want it. The default is 100 Kilobytes, I’ve got it set to 10 Megabytes. I’ll let you choice how much. It just depends on the space and how much your willing to give up.
Then you have to direct yourself to the adobe website and do the same there. You have to put add the information to the cloud you could say. Here’s the link, you can always get there by either visiting the Adobe website or clicking on the advanced tab in the settings manager.
You would then go to the website storage tab or link and go there and slide the bar to where you’ve put the other one or give it more. You then would want to make sure adobe is using your hardware acceleration for playing movies and video.
Make sure yours has the Check Mark!! Sometimes it is easier just to clear the Cache!
Yes, I did say clear the Flash player cache. Here is how you do it. You will have to go the settings manager website. The Cache is in the storage settings manager. Then click on Delete all sites. It will ask if your sure. You say yes, and it’s done.
After that you should have some smoother sailing with Hulu and other websites that require flash. It isn’t hard to do but it is sometimes a pain because you have to from time to time clear out that cache on the website. If anyone else can come up with some good tips throw them out my way. Share your tips with the world.
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Categories: 2010, Autoplay, Autorun | 
Tags: Adobe, Adobearm.exe, Fake Antivirus, My thoughts, Scareware, Updater | 
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