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F-Secure Suggests Ditching Adobe Reader For Free PDF Viewers

Posted by timothy on from the jane-the-sex-was-good-but-I've-had-enough-circus dept.

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."

3 of 249 comments (clear)

  1. Helpfully by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    F-Secure posted a PDF with exploits to uninstall Adobe Reader and install a new free reader.

  2. Re:Acrobat: The Worlds Worst Software by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    the most execrably awful, arrogant, bloated, buggy, piece of software ever made, ever.

    It's called Realplayer.

  3. Re:Already there by JoeBuck · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.