Comments on: Adobe Reader Vulnerability Being Actively Exploited

By: eM3rC

eM3rC — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 04:25:57 +0000

@Stamatis
I’ve been printing documents off of foxit for a few weeks and haven’t had any problems. Although you didn’t give any details do you think it might be the printer or might have to do with the document having some kind of security on it?

I know some ebooks allow the user to view it but not copy or print whats in it.

By: Stamatis

Stamatis — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 13:54:48 +0000

I had many problems using Foxit Reader especially on printing.

By: eM3rC

eM3rC — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 04:03:03 +0000

@For both J. Lion and Pantagruel
Check out a piece of software called PC Decrapifier (http://www.pcdecrapifier.com/) it removes a lot of that stuff and I found it saves a lot of time when setting up new computers.

@Darknet
Mozilla for the win! :)

By: J. Lion

J. Lion — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 18:45:41 +0000

Buying new PCs now require 2-10 hours of your time uninstalling crapware!

By: Pantagruel

Pantagruel — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 13:17:30 +0000

@Darknet

True some of the bigger PC suppliers (HP/Dell and such) are shipping their corporate machines with a bloated load of ‘handy and free’ software (toolbars, 30 day limited viral scanners. image processing packages, etc..). One of the first things in our SOP for installing a new pc (after physical check of the package) is do a full re-install without all the shit (unattended install, etc).

By: Darknet

Darknet — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 07:50:11 +0000

I hate toolbars, but they all install on IE, which I don’t use so they don’t really effect me.

I have seen some newb computers with 5-6 toolbars and they wonder why surfing is slow (Alexa, Yahoo!, Google, Stumble, MS Live! etc).

By: eM3rC

eM3rC — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 06:34:57 +0000

@Jared
Amen. Its even worse with things like computer operating systems where they load like 20+ programs on the computer.

All I can say is read the boxes before installs and look for better alternatives for software such as Foxit.

Good luck mate!

By: Jared

Jared — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 05:10:38 +0000

I’m really fed up with adobe wanting to install the google toolbar with adobe reader. As a matter of fact I don’t really see the point of installing any toolbar on my browser. I think that it’s unfortunate for newby users that lots of the major software vendors hide these toolbar downloads in other programs so that distributer can make money.

By: eM3rC

eM3rC — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 05:04:53 +0000

@Jim
I don’t know if you know how to fix the problem but just incase (or if someone else wants to know) here’s how you do it.

First download or select a .pdf file on your computer. Next right click it and select “open with”. A new window should appear, scroll down to foxit, select it, and check the box that says something like “always use this program”. Click OK.

Hope this helps someone out there.

By: Jim

Jim — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 03:08:04 +0000

Thanks for the article. I could not agree more with you on FoxIt. What a great little app.

A really annoying thing happened to me when my last MS security patches went in, MS realized that Adobe was not the default for pdf files and automagically changed my default pdf handler from FoxIt to MS Word!!!