Sounds like there is something wrong with what you are trying to download and not an Adobe problem. Make sure you have the latest version of Adobe Reader or try the small free Foxit Reader 2.0 for Windows which works well for PDF files. At least you could narrow down the problem whether file or reader.

I don't believe that you can upload a PDF (Adobe Acrobat) file to Tinypic because it's not a typical image file. Another workaround may be available, but you could try getting a screenshot (open file, enlarge to fit screen, then press Ctrl and Print Screen) of the file and pasting into Paint, then saving as a JPG file. That would upload to Tinypic.

I purchased the full Adobe Acrobat in 2006 from Adobe, installed & activated it the next day or two. I still use it as it is sufficient for my needs. I don't understand why I get the pop up because I never downloaded or installed a trial version of Acrobat. I forgot to mention that the pop up isn't triggered by every pdf. Don't know why. Will try phone support, but I have my doubts because of what my son told me about his son's new job on a computer help line. "Oh, I don't need to know anything about computers because you type in the question and the computer gives you the answer." (!)

It does sound like they got reader on your pc now and not the full acrobat. They may have thought they were doing a security update and not realized it was a different program, which would not surprise me for geek squad. here are some options for you. This one is by Adobe Create PDF Foxit PDF Creator CutePDF Writer Best Free PDF Writer Best Free Non-Adobe PDF Reader Have you tried going to control panel > add remove programs and seeing if your program is still listed there? If so if you hilight it does it give you an option to repair? IF it is still listed then try going to your programs folders in explorer and finding the executable file for it and seeing if you can double click on it. IF the program is still on the pc you should be able to get it back up.