US-CERT, the computer emergency response team that is now part of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, on February 20, 2009, released a Cyber Security Alert warning about Adobe Reader versions 9 and earlier and Adobe Acrobat (Professional and Standard) versions 9 and earlier. According to the US-CERT release, the issue is that JavaScrpt, as [...]
Adobe Reader 8 Problems – And a Change to Foxit Reader
I started having a bunch of problems this week with my notebook jumping to 100% CPU usage. It wasn’t just a temporary problem either — at one point, I walked away for 30 minutes. When I returned to my computer, the problem was still there — and my computer was virtually useless. After a couple [...]
Adobe Acrobat Reader 8 Review
Adobe Systems Incorporated(www.adobe.com) has released a version 8 of their Adobe Reader program. While the software giant publishes many other premium-level programs, Adobe is best known for the its creation of the PDF document format that is used on almost all computers. Almost all electronics manufacturers, and many other manufacturers, too, now make their manuals [...]
Adobe Reader 9.2.0 is Better…
Well, I’ve run into a problem with my preferred PDF reader, Foxit Reader. This light-weight reader starts quickly and displays files quickly. It links into Internet Explorer and Firefox, so that it can display PDF files within the web browser, just like Adobe Reader does. Plus, it’s fast. I was rapidly getting tired of Adobe [...]
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