Comments on: Another security flaw in Adobe Reader – time to switch to another option? http://www.teleread.org/2009/04/29/another-security-flaw-in-adobe-reader-time-to-switch-to-another-option/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:01:59 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Micah http://www.teleread.org/2009/04/29/another-security-flaw-in-adobe-reader-time-to-switch-to-another-option/comment-page-1/#comment-1047529 Micah Fri, 01 May 2009 03:34:13 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/?p=21099#comment-1047529 Well, Digital Editions uses completely different code than Acrobat Reader and is very, very unlikely to have similar security issues, and it reads PDF's like a charm. DE launches fast, and such a pretty goth interface! Well, Digital Editions uses completely different code than Acrobat Reader and is very, very unlikely to have similar security issues, and it reads PDF’s like a charm. DE launches fast, and such a pretty goth interface!

]]> By: HeavyG http://www.teleread.org/2009/04/29/another-security-flaw-in-adobe-reader-time-to-switch-to-another-option/comment-page-1/#comment-1047149 HeavyG Thu, 30 Apr 2009 09:19:43 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/?p=21099#comment-1047149 Foxit is a fine piece of software and I use it when I need to use a Windows OS (90% of my time is spent in OS X). However, it is not immune to many of the same holes found in Acrobat. Foxit has had many security patches to respond to many of the same things threatening Acrobat. My guess is that many of the pdf apps out there have some code/architecture similarity in order to support various pdf features and that will make some security issues common to many if not all of these apps - perhaps even Preview will be hit at some point. Oops...forgot to say great post! Looking forward to your next one. Foxit is a fine piece of software and I use it when I need to use a Windows OS (90% of my time is spent in OS X). However, it is not immune to many of the same holes found in Acrobat. Foxit has had many security patches to respond to many of the same things threatening Acrobat.

My guess is that many of the pdf apps out there have some code/architecture similarity in order to support various pdf features and that will make some security issues common to many if not all of these apps – perhaps even Preview will be hit at some point.
Oops…forgot to say great post! Looking forward to your next one.

]]> By: HeavyG http://www.teleread.org/2009/04/29/another-security-flaw-in-adobe-reader-time-to-switch-to-another-option/comment-page-1/#comment-1046759 HeavyG Wed, 29 Apr 2009 16:32:02 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/?p=21099#comment-1046759 Foxit is a fine piece of software and I use it when I need to use a Windows OS (90% of my time is spent in OS X). However, it is not immune to many of the same holes found in Acrobat. Foxit has had many security patches to respond to many of the same things threatening Acrobat. My guess is that many of the pdf apps out there have some code/architecture similarity in order to support various pdf features and that will make some security issues common to many if not all of these apps - perhaps even Preview will be hit at some point. Foxit is a fine piece of software and I use it when I need to use a Windows OS (90% of my time is spent in OS X). However, it is not immune to many of the same holes found in Acrobat. Foxit has had many security patches to respond to many of the same things threatening Acrobat.

My guess is that many of the pdf apps out there have some code/architecture similarity in order to support various pdf features and that will make some security issues common to many if not all of these apps – perhaps even Preview will be hit at some point.

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