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F-Secure says stop using Adobe Acrobat Reader
- mattyb 18y agoWhile the article itself gets this wrong, the program is actually called 'Adobe Reader' as of v9. Not to be pedantic or anything.
- bdfh42 18y agoThe best reason for not using the Acrobat Reader from Adobe is that it is slow, slow, slow. The Foxit Reader is an excellent choice on the Windows platform - fast and free. Download link here: http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/reader/ http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/reader/
- behe 18y agoI find Sumatra PDF to be far better, it's even lighter than Foxit and installation is optional. http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/index.html http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/index.html
- stuff4ben 18y agoAgreed! Foxit integrates well with Firefox and even opens some huge PDF's that Acrobat Reader chokes on and brings my laptop (C2D 2.1Ghz, 3GB RAM) to a crawl.
- euroclydon 18y agoI recently became infected with a Windows virus. I was using Foxit reader and downloaded a PDF file that used a javascript exploit to place a DLL in my PATH. This virus-infected DLL was found before the real DLL because browsers search for it in three locations, in order. The version of Foxit reader I was using did not have the ability to turn off javascript. It may now. Google for 7.7.7.0
- stcredzero 18y agoI used to use Foxit, but have since turned to SumatraPDF. It seems to be a little lighter weight than Foxit.
- javanix 18y agoOf course, pretty much every viewer on *nix is faster than Adobe Reader, which makes it all the more irritating and confusing every time I forget that it is set as the default in our CS labs...
- wmeredith 18y agoI'm a big fan of the Apple's Preview. It's really fast. On a side note, I may showing my naivete here, but w(ho)tf is F-Secure?
- mattyb 18y ago"Of the targeted attacks so far this year, more than 47 percent of them exploit holes in Acrobat Reader while six vulnerabilities have been discovered that target the program, Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer of security firm F-Secure, said in a briefing with journalists." Also: http://www.f-secure.com/en_EMEA/about-us/ http://www.f-secure.com/en_EMEA/about-us/
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- tptacek 18y agoYet another antivirus company looking for publicity for their patent medicines.
- ideamonk 18y agoSince we also have this article - Foxit Reader exploits in the wild - http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=2996 http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=2996 So lets all switch to linux :)
- alexitosrv 18y agoI really don't get why that thing has become so bloated through the time. The size of the Vista installer of Acrobat Reader 9 is 41 MB!!! I remember the good old days when its installer size was around a few MB, and not the monstrousity of today. I prefer FoxIt Reader too.