Users of Adobe Acrobat pose an issue of frequently receiving a Adobe Update Manger popup prompt.

To stop Adobe Updater entirely, one must recognize how it gets run in the very first place. A Mac OS X system service called launchd, which launches the updater. Launchd, Adobe Updater is a periodic job. The occupation file is saved under your ~/Library/LaunchAgents folder. The specific file name is suffixed using a number of random characters, but it starts with "com.adobe.ARM" as the prefix. By opening the file with a text editor (it's a plain text file), you'd see that launchd would run the updater at 12600 seconds time, or 3.5 hours.

To remove, open Terminal.

Type these commands in the Terminal window:

cd ~/Library/LaunchAgents

launchctl remove `basename com.adobe.ARM.* .plist`rm com.adobe.ARM.*

It is suggested that software should be updated frequently, to do so you must update Adobe Acrobat manually by disabling the update manager prompt.