Foxit blocks PDF malware

I have been running Foxit is some version or another for the past five years at least.
Foxit used to be so fast it was unbelievable. Speed alone was the reason why I left Adobe without looking back.
But now I find 3.2 just as slow as Adobe used to be.
Working on a Core 2 Quad at 2.4Ghz with 4GB of DDR2 under XP, it takes no less than 25 seconds to open a 5-page, 213KB document with one graphic in it.
Maybe it's the graphic, I don't know, but frankly 25 seconds to open a lowly PDF on a PC that can run Supreme Commander in 1600x1200 at over 40fps ?

Something is no longer shiny in Foxit-land.

Good. I've seen computers infected via .pdf attacks.

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for finally removing from THEIR product a vulnerability that people have been criticising in Adobe Reader for like years, without noticing that Foxit had the same thing.

As for document viewer bloat, whatever happened to nice little web browsers? They're all enormous now! Even Opera! But then, why does Windows Notepad (XP) take 3 megabytes at launch BEFORE I START typing a 256-byte limerick? Which I could do in 1K RAM on a Sinclair ZX80?

I'd love to use Foxit for its speed and better security at work, but unfortunately my job sometimes requires me to print large quantities of pdf files in correct file order.

The only reliable solution I've found for this without causing me headaches is a batch printing program called Print Conductor, and that unfortunately only supports AR.

Compared to Reader, Foxit is amazingly fast and with many nice features, but ...

Contrary to their claims to be otherwise, their PDF rendering could not honor embedded URL links to web server reporting dlls for drill throughs.

They also had a hiccup with printing to a default landscape legal size.

Maybe they have finally fixed th3se for sure. If so, I will be switching Add-Ons in IE.

It is already bad enough that PDFs can contain active content, but the very concept that a *document* format can run executable commands is so fundamentally flawed that it could only come about from the dysfunctional halls of Adobe. No wonder that Apple's excuses for not allowing Flash or other Adobe-tainted formats on the iPhone hold some merit--even if coming from Apple.

Hopefully, Foxit's "safe" mode is the standard rather than the exception for PDFs to run in. The only reason I even keep any taint of Adobe's Acrobat on this system is to create PDFs. Adobe's Reader has been unusable since about 6.x.

Evidently my first acquaintance with the Painfully Dumb Format was in a prior time, as I NEVER regard it with anything but contempt.

It was 1995. I was installing a CAD program, needed to read its docs. First a wait to install the reader. Then, a FAR longer wait while Win 3.1 did its lousy virtual memory paging; after MANY minutes, was able to read the little bit of text, with a minute or so wait between pages. Then found that the megabyte file (plus same for reader, mind) contained maybe 20K of text -- and NO help, of course. Curious, I looked into this new-fangled .PDF with debug, found that it had formatting commands in plain text, and the little bit of text was enciphered simply (like ROT-13), exactly BACKWARDS to reason.

Adobe managed to make reading a simple text file into so painful an experience that I despise them for all time, along with the GUI mania that insists on making the simplest task "pretty" no matter the drawbacks.

And putting EXEs into documents is just plain stupid. Nothing against Foxit, better than Adobe, but following a path laid by idiots just begs for trouble.

Remember the good ol' days when:

1. PDFs were simply portable, read only documents?
2. Reader loaded in a couple of seconds without having a 100 meg background process sucking the life out of your computer?

After version 4.0 Adobe just got lazy and greedy, started throwing tons of useless crap into something that didn't need it.

Sweet another UAC to run with the windows UAC. Now I dont need an anti-virus program since I can just have the OS or the software each notify me when something is trying to run and I can research the culprit myself and see if I want to allow it.