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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."

2 of 249 comments (clear)

  1. They all suck by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    acroread is the only decent pdf viewer for linux.

  2. They are NOT free! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Those alternatives to Adobe reader are not free.

    Almost all come with that retarded GNU license (which means you can't use it commercially), require ghostscript(a bloated pig with GNU license again), or they pop ads into your face.

    Why can't somebody create a PDF Reader with MIT style licence? Come on guys!