I had the same problem and did discover that you can download it from the adobe website without it insisting on installing the yahoo toolbar. The auto update does give you yahoo though, and their photograph album software (gah).
Yahoo are only one of the idiots that do this, my son regularly fills IE with bogus toolbars from some of the games sites he visits but as we use firefox it isn't a problem, I just edit the registry every few weeks and dual boot linux and remove the DLL's.
Amusingly the M$ anti-spyware stuff does seem to stop a lot of this, particularly hijacking the home page with a referer URL.
Stuff produced in the middle of the night by caffeine-fuelled, agressive loons who have worked every day for the last 6 months and are so tired they couldn't find their ass with both hands and a flashlight? Let's hope it isn't anything critical or medical. Define better.
Putting extra in towards the end of a project to ensure hitting deadlines is one thing, constantly working that way is a good way to end up dead before you hit 35. I learned this the hard way and managed not to let my then employer kill me. I admit I learned a lot but it's no way to live.
Look out of the window, better still, go out for a walk. Short sharp bursts of frantic activity are good, constant pain is not. Try planning, try agile methods. They work.
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I had the same problem and did discover that you can download it from the adobe website without it insisting on installing the yahoo toolbar. The auto update does give you yahoo though, and their photograph album software (gah).
Yahoo are only one of the idiots that do this, my son regularly fills IE with bogus toolbars from some of the games sites he visits but as we use firefox it isn't a problem, I just edit the registry every few weeks and dual boot linux and remove the DLL's.
Amusingly the M$ anti-spyware stuff does seem to stop a lot of this, particularly hijacking the home page with a referer URL.
Stuff produced in the middle of the night by caffeine-fuelled, agressive loons who have worked every day for the last 6 months and are so tired they couldn't find their ass with both hands and a flashlight? Let's hope it isn't anything critical or medical. Define better.
Putting extra in towards the end of a project to ensure hitting deadlines is one thing, constantly working that way is a good way to end up dead before you hit 35. I learned this the hard way and managed not to let my then employer kill me. I admit I learned a lot but it's no way to live.
Look out of the window, better still, go out for a walk. Short sharp bursts of frantic activity are good, constant pain is not. Try planning, try agile methods. They work.