F15 Why does gnome-shell automatically start Adobe acroread updater? (malware?)

Darryl L. Pierce dpierce at redhat.com
Mon Jul 11 21:02:35 UTC 2011


On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 04:56:56PM -0400, Darryl L. Pierce wrote:
> What I'm failing to see is how this is a failing of Fedora. You
> installed a non-Fedora package on your system (AdobeReader is not a part
> of Fedora) and it is that non-Fedora package that appears to be doing
> things in the background on your system. You can blame the distro for

s/can/can't/

Doh!

> compromising your system when you were the one who circumvented the
> trusted packages list and installed something else.

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