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What is AdobeARM.exe?

Part of Adobe Reader and Acrobat Manager by Adobe Systems

What is it?

AdobeARM.exe is a part of new Adobe Acrobat\Reader updater. The Updater is responsible for checking for, downloading, and launching the update installer for Reader or Acrobat. The Updater primarily keeps itself up to date and downloads and extracts needed files. It does not actually install anything, as that job is handled by a separate installer. Update preferences controlled at the registry level. Log settings controlled at the registry level; log name and location is different. Checks for upd

What if I disable Adobe Reader and Acrobat Manager?

If you manage updates yourself, it is absolutely safe to remove it, however Adobe Reader will not be automatically updated.

Description of adobearm.exe from Adobe Systems

“Adobe Reader software is the global standard for electronic document sharing. It is the only PDF file viewer that can open and interact with all PDF documents. Use Adobe Reader to view, search, digitally sign, verify, print, and collaborate on Adobe PDF files. Access to all PDF files View and interact with PDF files that contain a wide variety of content, including drawings, email messages, spreadsheets, videos, and other multimedia elements. Access PDF files on the go from your mobile device. U”

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How does adobearm.exe run?

Process - AdobeARM.exe is an instance of a running program. This 32-bit program executes with the privileges as the currently logged in user account. AdobeARM.exe is executed by the process ccsvchst.exe (Symantec Security Technologies by Symantec).

How does adobearm.exe start?

Startup files (all users) run - AdobeARM.exe is registered with the run identifier 'Adobe ARM' and the execution command '"C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\ARM\1.0\AdobeARM.exe"' in the Windows registry HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run. Run keys are startup registry keys that are used to launch an application automatically when any Windows user logs into Windows.

Scheduled task - AdobeARM.exe is launched automatically by registering itself into the Windows Task Scheduler under the task name '\Adobe online update program'. Task Scheduler provides the ability to schedule the launch of programs or scripts at pre-defined times or after specified time intervals or even with event-based triggers.

Scheduled tasks startup - AdobeARM.exe is launched automatically when a user logs into Windows by registering itself into the Windows Task Scheduler under the task name '\Adobe ARM'. With Scheduled Tasks, any script, program, or document can be configured to run when a user logs into the PC. These tasks start every time that Windows is booted and runs in the background.

Adobe Reader and Acrobat Manager is loaded by:

adobearm.exe (Adobe Reader and Acrobat Manager by Adobe Systems)

Community

What is the community is seeing?	What is the community is doing?
About 0.2% of all Boost users have the adobearm.exe process running.	Of the 0.2% of adobearm.exe users, 77.0% have disabled it.

How stable is Adobe Reader and Acrobat Manager?

Based on crash data discovered by Boost, stability is a measure of how sound this particular process and the average percent of times it crashes.

	adobearm.exe0.03%

	Typical program1.26%

How resource intensive is AdobeARM.exe?

Comparison based on the average resource utilization across all programs.

0.04580% CPU457965.3%

Average CPU utilization across all programs is 0.00001%.

5.52 MB RAM25.6%

Average private memory utilization across all programs is 21.53 MB.

40 /min1.8%

Average I/O read and write operations for all programs is 2,253 per minute.

19 GDI objects12.7%

Average number of GUI GDI and USER objects for all programs is 150.

Typical file (disk image) location:

C:\Program Files\common files\adobe\arm\1.0\adobearm.exe

Are there other versions of Adobe Reader and Acrobat Manag...?

adobearm.exe - version 1.5.5.0 (this)

adobearm.exe - version 1.4.7.0

adobearm.exe - version 1.0.5.0

What else is related?

adobearm.exe (Adobe Reader and Acrobat Manager by Adobe Systems)

livetype.dll (2013/08/28-12:10:37 by Adobe Systems)

flashutil32_11_9_900_117_activex.exe (Adobe® Flash® Player Installer/Uninstaller by Adobe Systems)

flashutil32_11_8_800_168_plugin.exe (Adobe® Flash® Player Installer/Uninstaller by Adobe Systems)

flashutil64_11_9_900_117_activex.exe (Adobe® Flash® Player Installer/Uninstaller by Adobe Systems)

flashutil64_11_3_300_271_activex.exe (Adobe® Flash® Player Installer/Uninstaller by Adobe Systems)

axsle.dll (AXSLE 2012/08/23-13:03:03 by Adobe Systems)

cooltype.dll (CoolType 2013/07/18-08:03:51 by Adobe Systems)

flashutil64_11_8_800_175_activex.exe (Adobe® Flash® Player Installer/Uninstaller by Adobe Systems)

flashutil32_11_8_800_175_activex.exe (Adobe® Flash® Player Installer/Uninstaller by Adobe Systems)

flashutil32_11_8_800_174_activex.exe (Adobe® Flash® Player Installer/Uninstaller by Adobe Systems)

npswf32.dll (Shockwave Flash by Adobe Systems)

flashutil32_11_7_700_169_activex.exe (Adobe® Flash® Player Installer/Uninstaller by Adobe Systems)

dngcodec.dll (Adobe DNG WIC Codec by Adobe Systems)

flashutil64_11_8_800_94_activex.exe (Adobe® Flash® Player Installer/Uninstaller by Adobe Systems)

flashutil32_11_6_602_171_plugin.exe (Adobe® Flash® Player Installer/Uninstaller by Adobe Systems)

livetype.dll (2013/06/11-18:10:42 by Adobe Systems)

ansclient.dll (Adobe Creative Cloud Connections by Adobe Systems)

gude.dll (Gude Library by Adobe Systems)

appspanelil.dll (Adobe Creative Cloud Connection by Adobe Systems)

behancepanelui.dll (Adobe Creative Cloud by Adobe Systems)

behancepanelbl.dll (Adobe Creative Cloud by Adobe Systems)

Adobe Reader and Acrobat Manager Stability

adobearm.exe crashes or has encountered a critical error 0.8900% of the time.


1.	Error: Stopped working (InPageError) Occurred: over 6 months ago

What Windows OS versions does this run on?

Microsoft Windows XP (5.1.2600.196608)

Windows XP Professional (5.1.2600.196608)

Windows Vista (TM) Home Premium (6.0.6001.65536)

Windows Vista (TM) Home Premium (6.0.6002.131072)

Windows Vista (TM) Ultimate (6.0.6002.131072)

Windows 7 Professional (6.1.7600.0)

Windows 7 Ultimate (6.1.7600.0)

Windows 7 Enterprise (6.1.7601.65536)

Windows 7 Home Premium (6.1.7601.65536)

Windows 7 Professional (6.1.7601.65536)

Windows 7 Starter (6.1.7601.65536)

Windows 7 Ultimate (6.1.7601.65536)

About Adobe Systems Incorporated

Adobe Systems Incorporated is a diversified software company. The Company offers a line of business and mobile software and services used by professionals, desi More...

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File details

File name: AdobeARM.exe

Publisher: Adobe Systems Incorporated

Name: Adobe Reader and Acrobat Manager

Description: Adobe Reader and Acrobat Manager

Version: 1.5.5.0

Original file name: AdobeARM.exe

Digital certificate

Issued to: Adobe Systems

Certificate authority: VeriSign

Effective date: 9/18/2006

Expiration date: 11/5/2009

Resource utilization

CPU utilization averages

Total CPU: 0.0496369435%

Privileged CPU: 0.0038404174%

User CPU: 0.04579652604439%

Privileged CPU time: 748.8 ms

Privileged CPU time /min: 0 ms

CPU cycle count: 573,389,232

CPU cycle count /min: 588,003

Memory utilization averages

Committed memory: 98.38 MB

Peak committed memory: 119.86 MB

Paged memory: 5.52 MB

Peak paged memory: 9.23 MB

Paged system memory: 180.96 KB

Non-paged system memory: 13.82 KB

Working set memory: 10.21 MB

Peak working set memory: 24.72 MB

Min working set memory: 6.81 MB

Private memory: 5.52 MB

Page faults: 19,070

Page faults /min: 2

Process I/O averages

Total read operations: 124

Read operations /min: 1

Total read transfer: 7.63 MB

Read transfer /min: 1.19 KB

Total write operations: 34

Write operations /min: 1

Total write transfer: 2.4 MB

Write transfer /min: 385 Bytes

Total other operations: 3,210

Other operations /min: 1

Total other transfer: 84.31 KB

Other Transfer /min: 16 Bytes

GDI objects: 19

Peak GDI objects: 24

USER objects: 26

Peak USER objects: 26

Resources

Handle count average: 238

Thread count average: 7

Thread resource averages

adobearm.exe

ntdll.dll

Process details

Runs as (owner): User

Windows platform: 32-bit

System Tray: Yes

Parent Process

ccsvchst.exe (Symantec Security Technologies by Symantec)

Process Commands

"C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\ARM\1.0\AdobeARM.exe"

"C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\ARM\1.0\AdobeARM.exe" /PRODUCC:Reader /VERSIOC:10.0 /MODC:2

Startup files (all users) run details

Name: Adobe ARM

Command: "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\ARM\1.0\AdobeARM.exe"

Scheduled task details

Name: Adobe online update program

Command: \Adobe online update program

Scheduled tasks startup details

Name: \Adobe ARM

Image hashes

MD5: 47c1de0a890613ffcff1d67648eedf90

SHA-1: 7781dba8746f8bf2a37ff96656a904531c0a9998

SHA-256: 5821567d7dd99623257aea794023ef4200e6e17fd09656b40d97c44a35c701bb

PE image details

File entropy: 6.11827

Import Table

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urlmon.dll View import functions for urlmon.dll

user32.dll View import functions for user32.dll

userenv.dll View import functions for userenv.dll

version.dll View import functions for version.dll

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wintrust.dll View import functions for wintrust.dll

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