What is a "malware vector?" I've never had a problem with Acrobat. Been using it forever, probably more than twenty years.
Paul via phone > On Feb 2, 2014, at 12:24 PM, Bob Sullivan <[email protected]> wrote: > > Sounds like good advice Mark. Regards, Bob S. > > On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 10:02 AM, Mark Roberts > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Bob Sullivan wrote: >> >>> Adobe doesn't have my confidence either. >>> Anybody who wants to get in my machine every time I sign on is not my >>> friend. >>> And, there is a new version of the PDF reader they want to download every >>> time. >>> I believe that is bullshit. >> >> Acrobat Reader is a malware vector, too. Best avoided. >> >> I use Foxit PDF reader. It's free, fast and the latest version lets >> you create PDF files as well as read them. It probably doesn't support >> all the tricky features that Adobe's been ladling into Acrobat over >> the past few years (and which even a fairly advanced user such as >> myself has never needed), but then that's why it's safer. >> >> Really superb software. Highly recommended. I've deleted Acrobat Pro >> and Acrobat Reader from my system. >> >> -- >> Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia >> www.robertstech.com >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
