Critical Security Alert

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From: Fred_Ferdnick
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 18:15

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I'm getting a pop-up, the veracity of which I need to confirm or deny. It reads: "Critical Security Alert - Software Removal Tool. This tool will remove Adobe Download Manager (version 2.1 and earlier - versions that Adobe no longer uses). For security reasons, Adobe strongly recommends using this tool to remove older versions of the Adobe Download Manager from your system."

Is this thing legit? With all the spyware and viruses around these days - often preceded by official-looking messages that aren't - I'm very reluctant to download, remove, or whatever this thing is telling me I need - before I know for sure this is a message that is actually from Adobe Systems.

Thanks in advance.

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