On 07/12/2011 04:19 AM, Deron Meranda wrote: > For some reason, my Gnome 3 shell process has forked off an 'acroread' > process which I did not start! > > It appears to be attempting to install itself or do something in the > background. This is completely unacceptable, nothing should ever > attempt to download and run some unauthenticated script and should > never attempt to install anything without my explicit knowledge and > permission! > > I consider this to be a security breach and failure of the Fedora > security policies to permit this. In fact there should be a separate > SELinux context for this commercial app just so it can't do anything > to my system without my knowledge. > > UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD > XXX 2509 2483 0 Jul10 ? 00:00:01 gnome-session > XXX 2615 2509 1 Jul10 ? 00:12:04 /usr/bin/gnome-shell > XXX 16717 2615 0 13:46 ? 00:00:08 acroread > XXX 16769 16717 20 13:46 ? 00:29:25 /bin/sh > /tmp/acrobat.n9vv0T/AdobeReader/INSTALL --lzma=/home/XXX > XXX 7662 16769 0 15:40 ? 00:00:00 [INSTALL] <defunct> > > Does the Gnome shell have some sort of auto-start or auto-update > capability in it, that perhaps Adobe has surreptitiously hooked itself > into. And how do I get it back out? > > > (The only reason I even have Adobe reader is because Evince can not > fully handle the US IRS tax forms.) FWIW, I installed acroread via the yum repo of adobe. There are no processes being started in GNOME or KDE at login. -- Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to? -- Clarence Darrow -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
