The link explaining the problem someone included said the Foxit reader is also vulnerable. The problem is with PDF documents that you're not expecting arriving in you're email ... unless maybe you make a habit of perusing skanky warez websites.
If you received an unknown executable file that you weren't expecting you wouldn't open it would you? Treat unexpected PDF files the same as you would an unexpected executable you received. On 2/3/2014 2:25 PM, [email protected] wrote:
Good to know. Thanks. Marnie aka Doe In a message dated 2/2/2014 8:02:58 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, [email protected] writes: 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.
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