[digitalradio] Adobe Reader incompatible with amateur radio computer?

2010-01-29 Thread n0hnj
I just completed a thorough format and reload of my PC, a Gateway Intel Core 2 Duo with 2G of RAM. Everything was working perfectly until I received a .pdf file from my local ARES organization. As soon as I loaded the current version of Adobe Reader the problems started. Adobe would not let me

[digitalradio] Adobe Reader incompatible with amateur radio computer?

2010-01-29 Thread Chris Jewell
n0hnj writes: [problems with the latest Adobe Reader and MSIE on a reinstall of MS Windows.] Adobe has a long history of buffer overrun bugs leading to exploits. There are third-party readers for PDF documents that are safer. Since I don't run Windows, the readers I use (Xpdf and Okular)