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    Adobe air question! + xp load screen question

    Only realised yesterday that my adobe reader was version 8 (something), so I un-installed it and then dl the new version. I later looked at my add/remove programs and saw that adobe air was installed too. What is it? and is it ok to just leave or should I un-install it?
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    Re: Adobe air question!

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    Re: Adobe air question!

    Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) is an Adobe runtime module that lets developers deploy Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) on your desktop.

    The upside is that it allows internet apps to be much more powerful and do things not possible without such a runtime environment. The downside is that there is at the very least the potential for serious security considerations. One such downside is that an AIR app has the same access to, for instance, the file system as the user, while for XP in default settings is full admin access.

    A full discussion of the pro's and con's on this is going to take a very long time, so my precis is this :-

    - it gives advantages, and allows for more powerful internet apps if you want them
    - it opens potential security holes too.

    My attitude is this - I do not want to give that level of access to internet apps. I don't care what functionality they offer, and I'll go without rather than open up my system. That will only ever change if they come up with something that I need badly enough to put up with the implications of AIR< and I don't see that ever happening.

    But your mileage may well be different.

    One reason I would remove AIR is because Adobe, in their overwhelming arrogance, install it without giving me the option to deselect. At least with their default to install MacAfee Scan Plus (or whatever it's called) you can deselect installation when you update Flash, if you notice it, but this kind of forced deployment winds me up seriously.

    So, in conclusion, by advice is to remove it unless you want it or something it enables. Personally, I don't, so off it'd come.

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    Re: Adobe air question!

    It's used by iPlayer Desktop (not sure about just streaming media in the browser), so if you want iPlayer Desktop you need it.

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    Re: Adobe air question!

    TweetDeck is also using Adobe AIR.

    But I can't share the opinion from Saracen about AIR in general.
    It is just another framework to code software.
    So you are not giving application more or less internet access as any other application you would install, coming as a C++, Java or whatever package.

    It is up to the coder of the AIR application to implement any security meassures into his software, however AIR itself already has several in place.

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    Re: Adobe air question!

    Uninstalled it! I don't use iplayer desktop so have no use for it. Hate having bloat on my laptop that is not needed.

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    Re: Adobe air question!

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    Uninstalled it! I don't use iplayer desktop so have no use for it. Hate having bloat on my laptop that is not needed.
    In that case may I suggest that you also uninstall Adobe Reader? There are far more lightweight apps that will display PDFs.

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    Re: Adobe air question!

    Just a small off topic question:

    Booted the home pc up today (been off for 3 days as I hardly use it, and parents away on holiday), but the xp load bar screen (you the one where it has XP then a bar moving under it) will appear twice. It will do it once all ok then screen goes black but then the load thing goes again, and then it shows the blue screen with all the user accounts as normal. Only just noticed it today but not sure why it has started to do it.

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