[gui-talk] Difficulty downloading/installing Adobe Reader 8.1

[David Andrews]

No, that is not what he is saying at all.  There are many different kinds of ActiveX controls, and they are not all bad.

Adobe is tryhing to get you to use others of its software products though, since they give away Acrobat Reader for free.

Dave

At 09:39 PM 7/19/2007, you wrote:
>Are you saying that there is something about the adobe.com Web site and 
>download page that's part of a scheme to draw the visitor to a destructive 
>Web page where they're made to install Active-X,and then this criminal 
>source uses that as a way to inject some kind  of virus into the person's 
>computer? If so, what's a safe way to obtain the new update of Adobe reader, 
>or was the announcement of its release fake, just a ploy to draw potential 
>victims to this site?
>
>Thanks.
>
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "albert griffith" <albertpgriffith at hotmail.com>
>To: "'NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List'" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
>Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2007 2:50 PM
>Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Difficulty downloading/installing Adobe Reader 8.1
>
>
>You were some redirected from Adobe's web site.  There's no active X
>required for its installation.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>Behalf Of Joel Deutsch
>Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 11:12 PM
>To: GUI-Talk
>Subject: [gui-talk] Difficulty downloading/installing Adobe Reader 8.1
>
>I currently use Adobe Reader V. 7.0, and I heard somewhere (the JFW list, I
>think it was) that the new version 8.1 was available.
>
>I went to the Adobe site, went to the Downloads page, then to the Adobe
>reader page and found the download link for this new version, for Win XP.
>
>When I clicked on it, I got a message asking me to install Active-X. This
>isn't the issue. I have heard that you should be careful about something to
>do with Active-X, because if you install it once, or install it on every Web
>page that asks you to (I forget how this is brought to your attention, but
>anyway), it could render your system vulnerable to some sort of virus deal.
>But this is Adobe, and I figure they're legit, and if they want me to do the
>Active-X thing, that ought to be safe. No?
>
>So I used what I'd learned to do with my newly installed IE7 and access the
>Information Bar, where I was able to indicate that I'd accept Active-X. I
>thought this went successfully.
>
>but as I followed the directions to proceed with the download, nothing more
>happened. It just sort of stalled. No dialogue like you get for most
>downloading. I tried it over a few times, to see if I might have made some
>error, but it just didn't work.
>
>So I had a sighted friend over this evening, someone very computer-capable
>by profession, and asked him to turn off Jaws and try it himself. In some
>frustration, he reported to me that the very same thing happened to him, and
>said I hadn't made any mistake because I was using Jaws. There just seemed
>to be something wrong.
>
>Does anyone happen to know what's up with this issue? It's not an emergency,
>and I can go on using Adobe Reader 7, I guess, but considering that Adobe's
>been good about developing screen reader-friendly features, I always feel
>interested in their upgrades and updates. Knowledgeable advice will be
>appreciated. First of all, have I misunderstood some step in the procedure
>because i failed to explore the page sufficiently with Jaws?If not, what's
>the problem? Anyone know?
>
>Joel
>
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