![]() To their credit, ACRESSO has an ‘uninstall’ utility at their own site and, hopefully, the the process was successful but I do NOT appreciate Nuance’s insistence of staying in touch with my computer, whether I wanted it or not and without asking for my permission. I found in my case that it was the Nuance PDF Reader.Ĭheck out the first comment at the bottom: "To my surprise, the ’software vendor’, Nuance in this case, decided to remove the ‘disable automatic…’ option and, whether I wanted it or not, my computer was going to call Nuance every day at 10 a.m., just to say ‘hi’, I suppose. Then I found the "installed on" column in "Add remove programs" to find what I installed on the date. ![]() I foundt his out by going to C:\ProgramData\FLEXnet\Connect and looking at the date of the folders in there. What is Acresso software manager agent and how do I get rid of it?ĭid you install Nuance PDF Reader recently? In my case this was the culprit. For example, on the Microsoft Answers forum there is this post: Nuance PDF Reader is clearly a common Nuisance. So Nuance PDF Reader is rather like a relatively harmless trojan/virus. I doublechecked that the system was all clear by searching for relevant files/folders using Locate32.Īs regards the extent of OS hook embedding and OS damage, I would estimate Nuance PDF Reader as rating about 4 or 5 on a scale of 1 (low) to 10 (high), where any Norton/Symantec product would be 10.Just in case, I checked for and expunged any and all residual Registry traces/hooks of these proggies (Nuance, Acresso/FLEXnet Connect) from the Registry, using CCleaner.Unlocker can also kill the locking processes at the same time as deleting the files/folders. I used Unlocker to forcefully delete any open files/folders that had been locked by residual running processes. However, I had to manually delete the Acresso/FLEXnet Connect agent software bits - which had been buried away in a couple of separate parts of the OS.This promptly caused it to try to phone home again (I blocked that too) - thanks Windows 7 Firewall Control. ![]() used RevoUninstaller to remove Nuance PDF Reader.It worked for me, but your mileage may vary. If like some people you install the free Nuance PDF reader, then uninstall it but it's still taking over PDFs in Firefox, here is how I got rid of it. How to remove Nuance PDF reader from Firefox (& short review) Yesterday I had a quick google about it and after reading this: ![]() I had been putting it off until I felt strong enough to confront the de-lousing of my system of the Nuance PDF Reader parasite.
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