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by kenone

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In simple sentences,
What is it?
Why do I need it?
Why is it appearing on my users machines?
Is it any more of a security risk than Flash itself?

I have read the website but I'm not a programmer and it makes very little sense to me. I run my hardware flash free so I really don't care personally but I keep finding this on users machines, presumably it's being bundled with Flash.

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by older mycroft

For instance, I use the [b]BBC iPlayer[/b] for downloading TV shows I may have missed when first broadcast.

Recently the [b]BBC iPlayer[/b] updated and informed me it needed Adobe AIR to function correctly.

by oh smeg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwymAaJMjhk

Though there are no simple sentences but I think that the Video is very simple. ;)

Col

by thumbsup2

It gets installed automatically with Adobe Reader and no option to prevent it.

I just follow up the reader installation with an immediate unistall of Adobe Air and Adobe Com.

by rob miners

http://www.adobe.com/products/air/?promoid=DINNX

http://www.adobe.com/products/air/everyone/

by thorrington

Adobe Air is a locally hosted multimedia format originally created with Adobe Flex Builder.. Through it you are able to execute any AS3 scripts including modifying the file system, file handling and most standard commands available to RIA applications. These files typically need installing to run inside the AIR runtime.

You could try pointing the file extensions to another runtime to disable them executing properly... !!

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