Could someone please tell me what is wrong with the Adobe Updater (AU). 
I have been patient. 
I use Adobe Reader 9 since some weeks. With the earlier version, 8.1.2, I had the same “problem” and before that, ehm, actually since they implemented it.
I do not use the built in update feature. So what do I do? Well after the install of a new version of AR I check its settings, perhaps change some and look at new features etc. as per usual.
With the updater: I select (and I don’t know the English wording here since non-English version) Help and Check for updates. I do let it do its thing one time, letting it through the firewall etc. look at what it finds, then I turn it off. That is: no automatic search.
Does it obey? Nope. I happened to leave the FW setting (rule) at “Ask”, and after some seconds working with AR later, up pops a FW alert asking about Adobe Updater. This is old news for me, as I said initially. It may work the rest of the day or something, since if you allow it once it will not check immediately on the next run. Only remedy is to set it to Block in the FW (if one doesn’t fancy AU to go on update search).
But it still runs even if the FW blocks it (for how long I don’t know, this time, with earlier versions it could be running as long as you had AR open and longer still). See screen shot.
It looked promising the first times I used AR 9; the updater was also changed to version 6 in this release, so I thought it would work better this time…
I just did the “turn-on-auto-check-and-check-for-updates-then-turn-off-auto-check-thing”, so we’ll see how long it stays.
Guess the solution is to let it search all it wants, and then it probably also quiet will close itself when finished (if no new updates are found).
But then oh why does it have a check box where you can opt out on using the auto update feature?
