Adobe spokesperson John Cristofano told me the following via e-mail: I contacted Adobe to ask them about this. I couldn't find it offered on Adobe's site minus the add-on I didn't want. I hadn't signed up for -registration is required to use the service-I just wanted the Adobe Reader update. Thanks to CNET member baddy_3- for pointing this out. Update, October 27, 2009: The Adobe site is now offering the Adobe Reader 9.2 upgrade without the with Adobe AIR component. It was formerly called Create Adobe PDF Online. This is a Web service for sharing and collaborating on documents. But the 45MB download included a separate program: with Adobe AIR. So when I heard last week about an important security update for Adobe Reader 9, I hurried to the Adobe site to download the new version 9.2. (I wrote about the importance of keeping your apps updated in a post from last April.) Along with Sun's Java, Adobe's Flash Player, and Apple's QuickTime media players, it's imperative that you keep your PDF reader up-to-date to prevent it from becoming an entryway for viruses. Unfortunately, the ubiquity of Adobe Reader and other PDF software has made the format a target for malware perpetrators. PDF has been the de facto standard for document exchange since the mid-1990s, but it wasn't an official ISO standard until 2008. Adobe Systems' Portable Document Format (PDF) is one of the great successes of the software industry.
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