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Old March 19th 19, 04:06 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.computer.workshop
Commander Kinsey
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Default Virus on page?

On Tue, 19 Mar 2019 11:23:13 -0000, Carlos E.R. wrote:

On 19/03/2019 00.16, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Mon, 18 Mar 2019 22:48:07 -0000, Carlos E.R.
wrote:

On 18/03/2019 15.03, Mayayana wrote:
"Commander Kinsey" wrote

| Technically yes, but the PDF is displayed in my browser and has
links to
click just like a webpage.

Not to nag, but you might also consider not allowing PDFs
to load in your browser. They're a common attack method.
They're not webpages. They only load at all because Adobe
has been trying, for many years, to find a way to hijack
the Internet. (Flash, PDF, AIR.)

Firefox has some support to display PDF internally without using a
plugin from adobe or elseware. But the rendering is not as perfect. I
don't know about other browsers, but I suspect they do similarly. I
believe PDFs are safe as long as the reader does not supports or ignore
the possible javascript code they can contain.


You'd be hard pressed to develop anything worse than Adobe's Acrobat
Reader. Just try printing something from it, you won't get anything
remotely like what's on the screen. I often have to screengrab it and
print it from Paintshop Pro.


Huh? I never had any such problem printing from adobe reader reliably.


I have, I never get the size I expect. Easier to put it into a photo editor with a screengrab, then you can fit to page etc.

Usually if a PDF is linked it's because you want a copy.
So it makes sense to set your browser so that you
download PDFs. Then you don't have to keep going
back to the website every time you want to look at it.
A PDF is not necessarily safer on your computer than in
the browser, but there are two differences:

And because the leaflet can be printed, with accuracy.


Adobe, accuracy, ROTFPMSL!


Well, adobe or others :-)


Anything should be able to print properly. PDF doesn't help here.
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