Adobe Acrobat Detected a Screen Reader?

LBanks on 25/05/2025 - 19:32

Has anyone had this issue before?

https://www.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/1ehe2yz/adobe_…

I don't have a picture because I panic rebooted the computer a few times but it mentions something about assistive technology and asks are you using a screen reader which is odd.

I have restarted my computer a few times and it disappeared, but I am in the process of doing a clean install.

I did notice that there was a DataExchangeHost.exe file that was in the process explorer but apparently some people say it's safe, but I used procexp and couldn't find anything except it was calling an -Embedding command.

I was using Enhancer for Youtube addon, but if I remove that addon then the DataExchangeHost.exe file does not appear immediately upon first view of Youtube. However, if I left it going then it going then the process spawns eventually over an hour.

I'm not sure if the two are related, but I do find the behaviour a bit odd considering I do not have a virtualbox or vmware installed on this machine.

Can someone give me some peace of mind before I start changing all my passwords…

I didn't install anything malicious and the only thing that could have hit me was a dodgy pdf. I'm not sure if it's just a bug or if I really did get hit.

Computing Adobe Software

Comments

  • Protractor on 25/05/2025 - 19:46
    +7

    IMHO Adobe itself is malicious dominating bloatware.

  • MS Paint on 25/05/2025 - 19:50

    Sounds like a conflict not a virus*

    *I could be wrong

  • Downvoter on 25/05/2025 - 20:42
    +4

    They have the internet on computers now?

  • Subere on 25/05/2025 - 22:17

    Do you have a win11 copilot PC? Maybe it's Recall.

    Imagine if Recall clashes with Acrobat 😂

  • fertilise on 25/05/2025 - 22:58

    is this not just the acrobat inbuilt assistive technology telling you its able to read it

  • markathome on 26/05/2025 - 03:45

    Given all the results for the pop-up's wording:

    https://www.google.com/search?q=Reading+Untagged+Document+wi…

    Including the first being this one. It sounds like just Acrobat being Acrobat rather than anything sinister.

    Screen readers are important legitimate pieces of software that help the visually impaired navigate computers. There is a default one, Narrator, with Windows 10 and 11 that you might be able to activate using Windows Key + Ctrl + Enter or Windows Key + Ctrl + N.

    There is also one for Apple Macs, VoiceOver, and a bunch of third party ones because the Microsoft/Apple ones suck.

  • Duckie2hh on 26/05/2025 - 09:59
    -1

    I don't have a picture because I panic rebooted the computer

    So you were cheating , got caught and panicked?

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