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The security cost of feature bloat
A "mailto" feature in Acrobat Reader? Why, oh why? The vast majority of people who have Acrobat Reader installed only have it for those occasional times when web sites insist on providing certain documents only in PDF. Nobody wants to use Reader; when they have to use it, they want it to do its job and nothing else.

Acrobat has gotten so bloated in the last several years, and now the cost of that bloat is coming back to bite Adobe.
Posted by: PB_z   Posted on: 10/07/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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The security cost of feature bloat  PB_z | 10/07/07
Agreed.  dogmo1001 | 10/08/07
many thanks to Adobe  Narr vi | 10/08/07
huh?  dogmo1001 | 10/08/07
Microsoft shares the blame, Apple blindly copies them  Resuna | 10/08/07
Foxit is the way to go  LinuxandMacforlife | 10/08/07
xpdf works nicely as well. (nt)  Henrik Moller | 10/08/07
i use this too, it's great! (on xp)  stevey_d | 10/08/07
Foxit option  VTSkiBum | 10/09/07
RE: Adobe confirms PDF backdoor, offers unsupported workaround  dkm2002@... | 10/08/07
Responsible disclosure  GonePhishing | 10/08/07
Who's the irresponsible party?  Ryan Naraine ZDNet Moderator | 10/08/07
Adobe's fix instructions broken for Acrobat Pro 7.0  dpnewkirk | 10/08/07
RE: Adobe confirms PDF backdoor, offers unsupported workaround  jeffrey878@... | 10/08/07
RE: Adobe confirms PDF backdoor, offers unsupported workaround  wng_z3r0 | 10/09/07
Sarcasm?  Greenknight_z | 10/10/07
Another workaround  Greenknight_z | 10/10/07
remote code execution flaw in Linux KDE with PDF files  qmlscycrajg | 10/10/07
...which flaws have already been fixed  dpnewkirk | 10/10/07
The flaw fixed by Adobe in Reader 8  PhilippeV | 10/26/07
What other attacks can we expect now?  PhilippeV | 10/26/07

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