WTF PDF: If at first you don't succeed, you may be Adobe re-patching its Acrobat, Reader patches

Flash - Nuke it from Orbit it's the only way to be sure.

While your at it, drop a few bombs on the Adobe coders, as the less badly coded bloatware they release the better. I can't imagine that Photoshop is much better coded, it is just not as widely installed as Flash and Acrobat

When asked about the decision....

When asked about the decision, a Microsoft spokesperson told us: "We got caught and now we're going to trot out a BS response that doesn't answer why we were allowing it to run despite the clear setting that said it shouldn't."

Why is it even being updated anymore?

I don't understand how something as old, and relatively *simple* as PDF renderer (which is what.. some kind of dialect of postscript.. that thing that's been driving printers since the 1970's?) can still have critical bugs in it. Like.. wtf? How many decades? Hundreds of revisions? Does it take to build something that like.. just paginates text and draws vectors on it? Like.. please just kill the fucking thing if you can't figure it out by now. There's probably hundreds of other pdf renderers out there. Just kill it. DIE.

I uninstalled everything from Adobe years ago and excommunicated M$ for my home 10+ years ago.

Unfortunately, people will continue to use Flash well beyond the announced EOL in 2020. https://theblog.adobe.com/adobe-flash-update/

The only real way to kill it off is if Adobe or the OS/browsers implement a master kill switch which is activated on a particular date.

Since I avoid using Microsoft Browsers at all costs, and don't have a Faceache account, its not a problem. Windows 10 is just as full of M$ bloatware as anything else that preceded it - Groove? Cortana?, Edge all completely irrelevant, but irremovable. Like chewing gum on a pavement, except you can remove chewing gum if you freeze it off.