• Good alternative for Adobe Reader: Foxit Reader[^]
• Good alternative for flash: Google Chrome [^] has a build-in version of flash. I think you need to disable Adobe Flash from about:plugins[^] before Chrome uses the build-in flash plugin
• You might want to uninstall flash player (if you haven't already done so) http://www.ghacks.net/2010/07/19/how-to-uninstall-flash-player-completely/[^]

Ian Shlasko wrote:

Don't even get me started on Zynga games (Farmville, etc)

It's to late for me, spending to much time on Mafia Wars X|