The Adobe Acrobat Pro DC Continuous Welcome Screen must be disabled.
An XCCDF Rule
Description
<VulnDiscussion>The Adobe Welcome screen can be distracting. It provides marketing material and also has online links to the Adobe quick tips website, tutorials, blogs, and community forums. When the Adobe Welcome screen is disabled, the Welcome screen will not be populated on application startup.</VulnDiscussion><FalsePositives></FalsePositives><FalseNegatives></FalseNegatives><Documentable>false</Documentable><Mitigations></Mitigations><SeverityOverrideGuidance></SeverityOverrideGuidance><PotentialImpacts></PotentialImpacts><ThirdPartyTools></ThirdPartyTools><MitigationControl></MitigationControl><Responsibility></Responsibility><IAControls></IAControls>
- ID
- SV-213136r766562_rule
- Severity
- Low
- References
- Updated
Remediation - Manual Procedure
Configure the following registry value:
Note: The Key Name "cWelcomeScreen" is not created by default in the Acrobat Pro DC install and must be created.
Registry Hive:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE