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Quote Originally Posted by nihil View Post
Hi,

As many of you already know FOXIT is a .pdf file reader.

I got a heads up today to update it, which I did..............using my normal method of downloading the file then launching it.

It wanted to know if it could change my search browser to ask.com and add some toolbar and some other crap.

Now, the defaults appeared to be yes, given that the defaults were green ticks.......so I unchecked them.

Then, about a half-hour later one of my "system policemen" pops up and says "this ask.com thing wants to update itself"

What is it about "NO" that FOXIT does not understand.........???????????????

I now regard it as crapware, scumware and top of my DOS (delete on sight) list.

If you have stock:

Opinion: Strong sell (whilst some mug will buy it?)
http://www.whoismadhur.com/2009/04/0...ader/#comments the above link is 5 free alteratives to adobe ive used pdf xchange and perfect pdf are perticularly good it basically boils down to what your needs are i stopped using fox it and adobe months ago , there is also one someone suggests in the user comments at the bottom that i love called STDU veiwer i think it even has tabbed browsing interface so you can open more than one document at once i haven't played with it much latly but will when i get a new computer