Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

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. Already there by andytrevino · · Score: 5, Informative

    I've been using Foxit Reader for some time on my aging laptop because of performance issues with Adobe Reader 9, and it works great. http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/reader/

    1. Re:Already there by DanWS6 · · Score: 5, Informative

      I was a firm believer in foxit, until I had to fill out my 1040 and related forms. Some of the fields were just screwed up. I had to cave and install acrobat. I died a little inside that day.

  2. For those on the go by compro01 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Sumatra PDF is also available in a portable format.

    --
    upon the advice of my lawyer, i have no sig at this time