Is not it time to finally drop AdobeReader for something else?

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Hi malware fighters,

Now as Adobe Reader starts to warn about Adobe Reader isn’t it time to change for another, less overbloated and less vulnerable reader. On their own webblog Adobe Product Security Incident Response Team warns for a security vulnerablility inside Adobe Reader 9.1 en 8.1.4. This after the bug was reported here: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34736/info
Again it seems Javascript is at the core of the problems
I am glad to have FoxitReader,

polonus

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I dumped AdobeReader several months ago in favor of Cool PDF Reader. It does almost everything one would want a pdf reader to do, is very small in size, opens very quick, and it is freeware.

View and Print PDF
Convert PDF to BMP, JPG, GIF, PNG, WMF, EMF, EPS
Extract PDF to TXT
Support PDF files of all versions
Work with 68+ different languages
Zoom in/out and Rotate page displays
Slide show PDF document with full screen
Small in size, only 626KB

http://www.pdf2exe.com/reader.html

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me too! thanks for the info :slight_smile:

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Excerpt from their page:

Designed for Microsoft Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000, and [b]Windows Server 2009[/b], 2003.

Wonder what server 2009 is? lol.

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FoxitReader has Highly Critical vulnerabilities from time to time too. http://secunia.com/advisories/34036/

Best to follow this advice no matter what PDF Reader you’re using, even if no vulnerabilities or exploits have been reported. From http://secunia.com/advisories/34924/2/

Do not open untrusted PDF documents.
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Quote Do not open untrusted PDF documents.
That holds true for all documents etc. [b]Never open anything that you don't trust or aren't sure of including URL's[/b]