Blocking adobe updater how to#

Now there is no way to disable the user interface you can disable the user interface using third-party tools (see ) to prevent users to re-enabling this option. Adobe Reader JavaScript option Disabling JavaScript Seeing how rarely the JavaScript option is actually used in Adobe Reader I recommend that you just configure this option to be permanently turned off (see image 1). Surprisingly the recommend action from Adobe to mitigate this security issues is to simply turn off JavaScript (which is enabled by default) in Adobe Reader. One thing you might notice about the many of the vulnerabilities in Adobe products is that they are frequently JavaScript issues.

Blocking adobe updater how to#

This has has left IT administrators with a bit of a nightmare as to how to keep Reader secure as Adobe don’t have the wonderful tools such as Group Policy and Windows Update, WSUS and SCCM to manage their patch rollout deployment. New: To see a complete list of current updates for Adobe Reader (all current versions) on Windows go to Recently there have been a number of critical security issues that have been associated with Adobe Reader (see below). I have also added a section called “Locking down the Automatic Update option for Adobe Reader” which shows you how to prevent users from changing Adobe Reader update options once they are configured. This time I have updated the “Configuring Automatic Update for Adobe Reader” section below with now an officially documented and more reliable method. Update: This article is a re-publish of a post I have previously posted. Check out my ne blog post How to configure Group Policy for Adobe Reader XI for instructions. Update 2: Adobe has now published an official Group Policy Administrative template that has a pre-configured setting to disable Java Script.