Re: Interesting Norton Scan Question

Art wrote:
On Sun, 19 Mar 2006 11:42:19 +0000, Adam Piggott
<usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

It pops up sometimes with some online stores, special pages like
NASA's "drive the Mars Rover around" and other web pages that need
to display complicated or interactive content - some web site games
use it as well.

And some online financial institutions require it from what I hear.

Thanks Adam...It sounds like I don't need it. Is it better just
to leave it installed just in case,

The problem with Java, I feel, is that it is used very little but
suffers from relatively severe security issues. It also takes up
quite a wodge of disk space. I expect that without it installed it
would take quite a while before you found yourself wanting it.

I've uninstalled it from my machines and don't miss it. It's one less
largre item that I no longer have to bother to update and scan.

(also is it okay to remove all the previous
versions of "acrobat reader" in add/remove programs, or are they
"additive" and you need to keep the earlier directories also for
the complete application to work)

The security updates for Adobe Acrobat are additive, they should be
left as is. Or you could use Foxit PDF Viewer (haven't got link on
me, a web search should find it).

Here it is:

http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php

Thanks Art...I have pasted a section of the web page below, and have a
question -
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Foxit Reader is extremely easy to use, just double click it to start and
then click open button to open your PDF document. If you want to print,
click on "Print" button. If you want to change the page layout for printing,
select "Print Setup" from "File" menu.
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When you have adobe installed and you click on a pdf page in google, it
downloads it automatically, which is nice.

It is not clear to me how the foxit reader works - sounds clumsy. It says
you have to double click it to start it, and then click the open button to
open your pdf document. I don't understand. That sounds like you are
clicking "open" in MS "works" or "word", or something like that. So how
would you click "open" when you are viewing a list of hits from google. I
hope you see what I am asking. Thanks again to you and Adam :-) ...Pete


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