Slashdot Mirror
F-Secure Suggests Ditching Adobe Reader For Free PDF Viewers
hweimer writes "Yesterday at RSA security conference, F-Secure's chief research officer recommended dropping Adobe Reader for viewing PDF files because of the huge amount of targeted attacks against it. Instead, he pointed to PDFreaders.org, a website maintaining a list of free and open source PDF viewers."
F-Secure posted a PDF with exploits to uninstall Adobe Reader and install a new free reader.
the most execrably awful, arrogant, bloated, buggy, piece of software ever made, ever.
It's called Realplayer.
I'm not sure who are more dangerous, those that don't update because they don't know what updates are, or those that don't update because they're too paranoid about corporations whose software they already use to allow that software to be patched against demonstrated security issues.
What about those of us who don't update because we're too lazy?
ZuluPad, the wiki notepad on crack
You really think so? Let me introduce you to my Buddy, Bonzi....
Don't tell me to get a life. I'm a gamer; I have LOTS of lives!
Acrobat utterly takes the biscuit when it comes to being the most execrably awful, arrogant, bloated, buggy, piece of software ever made, ever.
Clearly you have not used anything Lotus has shipped in the past decade.
XML is a known as a key material required to create SMD: Software of Mass Destruction
What about those of us who don't update because we're too lazy?
You might be lazy, but your computer isn't; it's been sending out spam 24/7 for a while now.
Linux: ready for the desktop!
I also had to install Acrobat to do my taxes. I felt very dirty afterward and took a shower, but it didn't help.
Adobe is far ahead of Foxit in the security realm. As soon as Acrobat detects the user attempting to open any possible malware vector, such as a PDF, it immediately freezes the machine to prevent infection.
I don't see how you could improve on that.