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>>>>BTW, unrelated question, but every time I re-start my laptop Adobe Reader wants to perform an update. I usually go ahead and do it, but why is it so?
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>>>It happens to my daughter's laptop too, but she installed a program that is a "Virus" that changes some executables so you get messages saying that 'someexe.exe has been infected" or something like that, so for now I am blaming this Virus, until I found time to remove it (from her laptop and from her desktop computer too, darnit. By the way, both run antivirus, adware and parental controls, I do not know what did she install, she says that she did not install anything... Kids... but still love her)
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>>Well, my son doesn't yet have his own laptop, so he uses mine every time I step down. He sometimes manages to make it not respond (I can work for days without a problem), so I don't know exactly how he does it. I do hope it's not a virus, though - I run MS Essentials and I've started a scan now just in case.
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>FWIW, my antivirus does not detect anything if I run it now, I realized something was terrible wrong when it started showing messages that the computer was being attacked from a random ip, random port, attacking my random port, I knew it was a lie for my hardware firewall would have blocked such an attack, and just in case checked the firewall logs and there was nothing abnormal, then I googled and found this virus, which what it really does is coerce you into buying their antivirus to remove all the virus they claim to find.

In theory, in my case it may be legit. I don't use Adobe often and I don't re-start my laptop often, so may be it finds new updates every time I re-start.
I'm using Adobe Reader 9. I made a very quick search and it doesn't seem to bring anything relevant.