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The day "Adobe Air" installed itself on my pc without permission was the day I turned away from Adobe.

While I have no doubt it sneaked its way in though some means you weren't expecting, I've never seen air install automatically. It often is shoehorned in though flash, but there are numerous prompts about what it's about to do.

It installs itself together with "Adobe Reader 9" with NO option for exclusion ("... to leverage A.Air"). You can deinstall it separatly after installation.

It doesn't, though. I just installed Adobe Reader 9 and it clearly asked me about Air. These FUD statements don't deserve any respect.

TIL what FUD stands for: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear,_uncertainty_and_doubt

TIL what TIL stands for :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Til

Okay, my experience comes from an installation in August 2010. Appreciate the update.

It's a bit argumentative to assume it's FUD and not an honest mistake or a change in the Adobe Reader 9 installation process.

In this case maybe.

Adobe, just like any entity, deserves a true projection.

If I sat on HN bashing Adobe I'd have much higher karma. Good thing I'm not here for karma.

I just installed Adobe Reader 9 on XP and it didn't install AIR.

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