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

  • From: "Jim Kenzig http://thin.ms" <jkenzig@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: THIN <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, vista@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 11:47:19 -0400

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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