Why I do not use Adobe Reader

Hi YoKenny: I unistalled the Adobe Reader.
I’m looking at the one you recommend. Could you please let me know which of the 3 options I should use? Thanks!

Cool PDF Reader: http://www.pdf2exe.com/reader.html
Standalone Package with no installation required (just unzip & run) 650KB

All-in-One Installer reader and its installer are made into one EXE 653KB

Standard Installer installer to setup Cool PDF Reader with wizard 904KB

XML-PAD PAD file containing the latest information on Cool PDF Reader software 3KB


I do not know which YK used but I used the all-in-one EXE and have been using it for almost 2 years.


@ anjana

The Standalone Package with no installation required is good for USB Flash drives.

The All-in-One Installer reader is the one I used.

Hello:
I installed Cool reader, but when I try to open a pdf file it does not give me that option. Somehow I’m not able to open the file. Is there a setting I need to check?
Thanks

PS: Never mind, I just figured it out.
Thanks a lot CharlieO and YoKenny for this info!

How many times does anybody really read a new pdf file? I very rarely do. I think the reader is used at most 4 or 5 times a year and even then mostly for manuals and other files I’ve had for ages and know are perfectly safe. I’ll stick with Acrobat Reader and feel totally safe.

Go ahead.

I bet your Secunia PSI index is way less than 100%

I guess you like to live on the wild side.

I’m probably an average user, I read (or download, or open) on average probably about 2 or 3 a week. Various forms, manuals, work related stuff (the computers at work are a bit of a PITA, I’d rather do it from home) and stuff from normally trusted sources - such as Av-comparatives, for example. I rarely have a need to create a PDF, but get them emailed to me often enough that I definitely need a reader.

You might be good as gold using an old Acrobat version, I wouldn’t know. One day you might get the old “double extension” trick and find it opening a file you thought was going to open in something else. Probably unlikely, however. Only you would know.

You need a pdf reader for financial statements, instruction manuals, most work-related material, …the more I think about it you need it for a lot of stuff. Do you get all this stuff via snail-mail?

I’m using Foxit, which is “Always sandboxed” in avast! IS. No that i’d have problems with it but i guess it doesn’t hurt having it set like that. Seems to work just fine this way, so why not :slight_smile:

I have never used Secunia and don’t think it’s necessary. I always update the reader to the latest version so I’m sure it’s good.
UPDATE-- I broke down and installed Secunia PSI. I’m not impressed at all. It gave a false reading of insecure for uTorrent because it detected the installation file of version 2.0.3 that I have saved. It says the actually installed version which was updated to 2.0.4 through the program’s built in updater is fine. If I was to use the 2.0.3 installer to reinstall the program, I would immediately be notified that a newer version was available and I would get the update so where’s the problem? The only other thing it found and said was insecure was IrfanView so I’ll have to check and see whether an update is really necessary. I’m not taking Secunia’s word for it.

I never get any of that stuff period. I only get manuals for some new software or hardware, but I haven’t gotten anything new in a long time. I have never directly received a pdf file through email. There have sometimes been links to them on websites but I very rarely need to see them. I think pdf is a dying format personally.

You are using the old PSI.

Auto Update your Programs - Secunia PSI 2.0 Public Beta
http://secunia.com/blog/123

Actually, I’m not using any now since I just uninstalled it. I don’t like that it loads at startup and since it didn’t find anything that I wasn’t either already aware of or was a real risk, it’s gone. I think that the results I got after never having used it at all prove my statement that it’s not necessary for me to have.

Is there any way to remove Secunia PSI from the startup?
I mean, not the first time, as you can disable the Windows Task/Startup entry. The problem is that any time you run it, it loads the startup item again… Shame on configurability.

Check Settings in Configuration then disable Start the Secunia PSI on boot

I have no problem on my Windows 7 system but on my XP Pro system I do not have it auto start.

I think this is new on beta, am I wrong?
Installed and running again on my system.

It was in the old version but I do not remember where but it is in a similar location.

Thanks.


I have a few games whose manuals are in PDF format which is the main reason I have a PDF reader. But, there is the occasional other need for such a reader.


I was having problems with Adobe Reader in the first place, so cheers. :slight_smile: