Adobe Acrobat X Pro.
And all props go to you — I just followed your clues to locate the program.
I am a very good Google searcher and I think this is the only thread on the Internet with this solution. There is a post on an Adobe site asking what the the program does because it triggered a virus warning for the poster, and the Adobe response was very opaque and vague.
When I first spoke to Adobe customer service, they indicated that if I did nothing, no action would be taken (e.g. program shutdown, etc.), I would just have to keep dismissing the dialog. Whether that is accurate or not (customer support often knows nothing), I have no idea.
There is also no way I am going to permit Adobe to “upgrade” although I get pop-ups to do so. It would be a very easy thing for Adobe to make this more Draconian than simply dismissing a box.
Hopefully, this has fixed it. I didn’t get the pop-up that often (wonder if the interval between pop-ups decreases over time?), so I can’t say I am out of the woods, but so far so good.
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I appreciate the kudos. I wish I knew of a way to get this information out to websites that specialize in this kind of thing but I do not. If you do, more power to you, get it out there.
The only thing I saw on the Internet was on the Adobe website under their FAQ section, and it basically said the same thing, "just put up with it, it won't cause any problems." Yeah right, and we can keep our doctors under Obamacare.
I'm with you on this. No more updates, no more upgrades. Adobe has shown that they can't be trusted to just provide software. They have to find some way to spy on people, just like Microsoft.
I'm glad to see that it's "so far, so good" for you. Hopefully word of this fix can get out there to the thousands of other folks it's affected Adobe can be stopped in its tracks.