AdobeUpdater.exe hangs and cannot be killed

Today I have been experiencing a problem with adobes AdobeUpdater.exe. It takes 100% cpu usage and cannot be killed. The only way to get rid of it is to reboot and even that don't always work. Sometimes a hard reset (a.k.a. da button) is the only effective solution.

Searched a bit and found several others to have the same problem.

Suggested solutions:

1. Rename
   

   c:\program files\Adobe\Updater5\AdobeUpdater.exe
   

   to (for example)
   

   c:\program files\Adobe\Updater5\AdobeUpdater.exe.old
   

   This will prevent the AdobeUpdater.exe from running.
   ( tip from Nish Vamadevans blog)
   


2. Uninstall Adobe acrobat reader and use another software (like Foxit)


3. Create an own Adobe installation package using the Adobe customization wizard 8 where you don't include the AdobeUpdater. See Aaron Parker's stealthpuppy.com

Hopefully Adobe will release a patch for this, but so far (version 8.1) the issue has not been fixed.

P.S. I went for solution 2, since I already had foxit installed. D.S.