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Uodater taking me for a ride?

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From: Tbinnie
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 01:41
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I checked with a few others who have recently downloaded Adobe Reader6 and they also have the exe for updtaer 6 as Adobe_Updater.exe. I tried a little experiment

I decided to click on Adobe_Updater.exe from the folder it is in
(C:\ProgramFiles\CommonFiles\Adobe\Updater6). It pulls up an update for language issues or some such, which I declined to download.

So I decided to check my NAV 2008 connection log (which shows my internet connections)Clicking Adobe_Updater.exe took me to the following web addresses
swupmf.adobe.com (206.57.28.49)
crl.adobe.com (206.57.28.34)

The "names (adobe.com) are fine but when I check the IP numbers using webyield.com I get "no reverse DNS for this IP"
But when I try to look up the address by number using WHOIS, it doesn't give me adobe, but

OrgName: Global Crossing
OrgID: GBLX
Address: 14605 South 50th Street
City: Phoenix
StateProv: AZ
PostalCode: 85044-6471
Country: US

So this is a little concerning. So clicking the updater taking me somewhere that is not an Adobe site?





your help is appreciated
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