From: "Gary Britt" 

How important is it to disable JavaScript?  What are the other things you
disabled?  I didn't realize JavaScript was part of the .PDF file format??

Gary

"Geo"  wrote in message
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> "Antti Kurenniemi" 
wrote in message
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>
> > force-feed-mucho-annoyance-in-your-face thingy, but also that you can't
> > download it anywhere without the stupid download manager ("oh, our
> download
>
> Yes you can, ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/
>
> I aborted my initial install and found it had loaded that stupid download
> manager even though I told it to undo all the install changes, so I had to
> uninstall the download mangler myself. Then I went hunting for the full
> version download and found it at the ftp site.
>
> Then after installing it I had to find the stupid option to turn off that
> damn automatic update thing, javascript, and a few other less than secure
> options (like launching programs and such). Then I had to load the 3
patches
> (also found on the ftp site) 7.0.1 thru 7.0.3 to make it immune to the
> published exploits.
>
> Now that it's been neutered, patched, and locked in, it's not so bad,
seems
> to fire up pretty quick compared to ver 6.
>
> Geo.
>
>

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