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Date: Wed Sep 21 17:05:31 2005
From: michealespinola at gmail.com (Micheal Espinola Jr)
Subject: PDF's unsafe?

Yea, the jury is still out on exactly how secure FoxIt Reader might be
- but for now its the best alternative I can find.  It doesn't have
any of the bells and whistles that I don't need or want in a PDF
reader anyway, and I know it doesn't run javascript or allow
executable attachments in PDF's, like Adobe's does.


On 9/21/05, ad@...ss101.org <ad@...ss101.org> wrote:
> yep foxit is really good near the too heavy adobe :)
> but about foxit security , I doesn't bet it's safer than acrobat..
>
> -----Message d'origine-----
> De: full-disclosure-bounces@...ts.grok.org.uk
> [mailto:full-disclosure-bounces@...ts.grok.org.uk] De la part de Micheal
> Espinola Jr
> Envoy?: mercredi 21 septembre 2005 17:54
> ?: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
> Objet: Re: [Full-disclosure] PDF's unsafe?
>
> I'm a win32 guy, so I've been using Foxit Reader
> <http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php>.  Its free, 4.5mb
> total, and is a stand-alone applications that doesn't require an
> install.
>
> I keep it on my thumb drive with my other utils.  I've been using it
> for a couple of months now with no issues reading or printing PDF's.
>
> On 9/21/05, Andrew Haninger <ahaning@...il.com> wrote:
> > On 9/21/05, Micheal Espinola Jr <michealespinola@...il.com> wrote:
> > > I dont use the official Adobe reader any more for his reason and more.
> > What do you use?
> >
> > Are there good, secure/safe viewers available for Windows? Linux?
> >
> > On Linux. I've used xpdf and gpdf. Neither was perfect but they tended
> > to get the job done. For example, I recently made a .PS with AbiWord
> > on Linux and then used ps2pdf to make it into a PDF. gpdf opens it but
> > it's blank. Probably a fonts or CUPS issue.
> >
> > Adobe's viewer is pretty darn reliable.
> >
> > -Andy
> >
>
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