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<blockquote data-quote="echium" data-source="post: 123977" data-attributes="member: 8694"><p>Hi Fiery.</p><p></p><p>Previously I had deleted the old version of Adobe Reader, so your link installed from scratch - rather than updating.</p><p></p><p>I have just now un-installed Adobe Reader and Google Chrome and repeated the download. It failed the first two times till I realised I had to disable AVG, which I didn't have to do originally. Your link took me to get.adobe.com page. I clicked on the download button (the only button on the page). Then a small blue screen appeared - "Zone Alarm File Download". The file name was install_reader11_uk_mssa_awe_aih_.exe. I clicked RUN. Then an oblong page appeared saying Adobe Reader installer. Below was a moving horizontal line showing the progress, saying Adobe Reader at the left. However below that was another line showing a second program was being installed at the same time. The first time it was Google Chrome, but this time it was McAfee Security Scan.</p><p></p><p>The second download was quite open - I can't say the site had been hijacked. It was clearly a "two for the price of one day" but with no option to decline the second download. Obviously not dangerous - but still a bit unethical.</p><p></p><p>I suspect that the Zone Alarm and Wajam downloads came about in a similar way - perhaps from the Java site. But it was not obvious they were being downloaded.</p><p></p><p>I am assuming that the TopArcadeHits.loader.exe, which has been removed is not a problem.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="echium, post: 123977, member: 8694"] Hi Fiery. Previously I had deleted the old version of Adobe Reader, so your link installed from scratch - rather than updating. I have just now un-installed Adobe Reader and Google Chrome and repeated the download. It failed the first two times till I realised I had to disable AVG, which I didn't have to do originally. Your link took me to get.adobe.com page. I clicked on the download button (the only button on the page). Then a small blue screen appeared - "Zone Alarm File Download". The file name was install_reader11_uk_mssa_awe_aih_.exe. I clicked RUN. Then an oblong page appeared saying Adobe Reader installer. Below was a moving horizontal line showing the progress, saying Adobe Reader at the left. However below that was another line showing a second program was being installed at the same time. The first time it was Google Chrome, but this time it was McAfee Security Scan. The second download was quite open - I can't say the site had been hijacked. It was clearly a "two for the price of one day" but with no option to decline the second download. Obviously not dangerous - but still a bit unethical. I suspect that the Zone Alarm and Wajam downloads came about in a similar way - perhaps from the Java site. But it was not obvious they were being downloaded. I am assuming that the TopArcadeHits.loader.exe, which has been removed is not a problem. [/QUOTE]
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