Users who dutifully downloaded the latest update to Adobe’s PDF Reader software have hit out at the software company after finding out that the security updates had surreptitiously installed an extension to the Google Chrome web browser – if they used it – without their express permission.
Adobe Acrobat and Acrobat Reader have new updates designed to fix a vulnerability that could enable miscreants to take control of a system infected with the relevant malware.
However, it appears that in order to combat this, Abode is now automatically adding a plug-in to Chrome’s browser when users update Acrobat Reader.
Adobe has been criticised in the past for being all-too-willing to try and push Chrome on users when they apply security updates for Acrobat Reader or Flash.
You do have to give permission for Adobe to “read and change all your data on websites you visit”, “manage your downloads” and “communicate with cooperating native applications”.
