Comments on: Adobe warns of Reader, Acrobat bug

A security flaw in the popular Acrobat and Reader PDF applications could put PCs at risk of attack.

[Stating]

Christ, Not Again

Like, every 2 months Adobe issues another security patch. Each patch purports to fix a buffer overflow problem. Can't they solve this once and for all?

I've already got enough patches to keep up with, I need less not more. So I'm trying out an alternative PDF reader - Foxit (http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php). So far, the few PDF's I've viewed using Foxit render as good or better than Adobe 7. And compare the codebase:

Adobe Reader 7
Disk space: 65 megabytes
Memory usage: 26,604K (42K doc size)

Foxit:
Disk space: 2.5 megabytes
Memory usage: 13,472K (42K doc size)

[Mendz]

Is this some trend or fad set for 2005?

Everybody wants to be in! I thought this is Microsoft's brand... :-D

[Earl Benser]

No worries, mate....

.... No Adobe Acrobat or Reader in my computers. And I've just
about eliminated the need for the rest of Adobe's products...........