Adobe,the newest purveyor of spyware?

I have noticed that with the newest updates of Adobe Reader (7.x) that they are now sneaking things into the mix like a Yahoo toolbar on browsers.

And now this morning I get an update from a company called Viewpoint that sneaks in a search toolbar under the guise of a legit update.

Viewpoint gets installed automatically whenever you install Adobe Reader and you have no choice in the matter.

So the question that I am posing is:

Is Adobe another r@t b@st@rd company sneaking in spyware that we neither want nor need?