I'm thankful that FoxIt PDF Reader has worked with everything I care about.

There are enough free PDF creators that I don't have to worry about that
functionality.


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On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 10:50 AM, James Rankin <[email protected]>wrote:

> Forgive me if I don't have much faith in a new version of Reader being any
> less full of potential exploits than its predecessors.
>
> Maybe if they stopped filling what could be a very lightweight executable
> full of bloated "features" that very few of us will ever use or desire they
> might have more success in securing it. But that ain't ever going to happen.
>
> Still, for all I hate it, I've never found an alternative that played
> nicely with all the rubbish and not-so-rubbish software I have to deploy. If
> it wasn't for the Adobe Customisation Wizard, though, I would have collapsed
> into mindless gibbering catatonia long before now.
>
>
> On 18 October 2010 15:45, Joe Tinney <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Adobe posted an announcement for the next version of Reader/Acrobat:
>>
>> http://blogs.adobe.com/adobereader/2010/10/announcing-adobe-reader-x.html
>>
>>
>>
>> The interesting tidbit for me was the new Protected Mode (initially said
>> to prevent writes to the system per some set of rules). This is a Microsoft
>> sandboxing technique. Adobe says they’ve consulted with MS and Google’s
>> Chrome developers along with others to develop the sandbox for
>> Reader/Acrobat.
>>
>>
>> http://blogs.adobe.com/asset/2010/07/introducing-adobe-reader-protected-mode.html
>>
>>
>>
>> Preorder for Acrobat ends November 30th, so I’m guessing this would be
>> released by the end of the year.
>>
>>
>>
>> Most of the infections I’ve dug into at %WORK% have had some PDF
>> involvement so I’m really hoping this helps!
>>
>>
>>

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