Well Adobe have done it again! They have a real knack of really upsetting me at the moment. There is another update, this one is a new version of Adobe Reader. We are now at version 10.0.0
The annoying thing about this new version is that when you install it, it fails to retain your settings from the previous installations. This means that the two big security default settings have been returned to their insecure status.
So, to become safer once again if you are going to be using Adobe Reader this is what you must do.
Start up Adobe Reader and hover over Edit, mouse down and click Preferences…
In preferences there are two settings to change from the default, the first one is JavaScript, click on the category JavaScript and make sure the box which says “Enable Acrobat JavaScript” does NOT have a tick in it.
Then click on the category Trust Manager and make sure the box which says “Allow opening of non-PDF file attachments with external applications” does NOT have a tick in it.
In my opinion you may be better off just un-installing Adobe Reader completely and use something like Foxit Reader instead.
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How to change your Internet Explorer Start Page
When you start up Internet Explorer, or any browser, you can have it start on any web page you like. You may have seen websites that say “click here to make this site your start-up” or something similar, maybe you (or someone else) has clicked on one of those and now you would like to get YOUR start page back.
Well, here is how you do it.
Open up Internet Explorer, click on Tools > Internet Options
Under the “General” tab look for the section labeled “Home page”
In the box enter the site URL that you want to start on, for example if you want to start on Google’s home page, you would enter http://www.google.com
Now if you have tabbed browsing enabled you can hit enter after that entry and on the next line put another URL, now when IE opens up you will have two tabs which load your two favorite sites. Just repeat for as many sites as you want to open up.
In Firefox it is very similar, click on Tools > Options
Under the “Main” tab look for the “Startup” section. If you want multiple tabs in Firefox, separate the url’s with the “pipe” character which looks like two vertical lines on top of each other (shift backslash for US keyboards, Alt GR and the key to the left of 1 for UK keyboards)
Good luck,
John
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