>>>Turned out he installed an Adobe Acrobat Reader update without un-checking the default opted-in extra garbage:
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>FWIW I installed Adobe Acrobat Reader yesterday. During the excessively verbose install there is one attempt to install a McAfee product that needs to be unchecked.
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>This attack sounds like the fallout from one of the download sites that requires you to install a small "downloader" that comes with all sorts of junk.
No, it was definitely the Reader update. The garbage payload changes frequently.
Regards. Al
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