Am Sonntag, 17. April 2005 18:32 schrieb Randall R Schulz:
Al,
On Sunday 17 April 2005 09:16, Al Bogner wrote:
Since I don't like that Acroread 7 sends messages home, I would like to do something like this:
What leads you to believe that it sends messages to Adobe? I'd be a
First, you should keep your eyes open if you're interested in computer security. Second, acroread 7 does not talk to ADOBE, it can talk (through javascript in pdf files) to whoever published the pdf file you're reading. See various news sites for more details.
little surprised that it would do such a thing without there being an option that can be disabled, and I see no indication that there's an option for controlling it in the Preferences dialog.
because it cannot be disabled thru configuration. As far as i know, in one of the articles about it it said that deleting the content of the acroread plugin directory would disable this "feature", with the additional benefit of faster startup of acroread. bye, MH