IE7 cannot load pdf

G

Guest

Recently I noticed windows updates going through. Now I note, when I click on
a .pdf file on the web, it causes the IE window to close. I have to right
click and save file to H/W to view a .pdf page.
Any ideas for a solution?

krishan
 
D

Detlev Dreyer

krish said:
Recently I noticed windows updates going through. Now I note, when I
click on a .pdf file on the web, it causes the IE window to close. I
have to right click and save file to H/W to view a .pdf page.
Any ideas for a solution?
Click to expand...

Uninstall the Adobe Reader (if used to open .pdf files) and re-install.
This will re-install the "Adobe PDF" browser plug-in as well. If this
doesn't help, contact http://www.adobe.com/support/
 
G

Guest

I have resolved it. Turns out that in zonealarm pro for some reason it has
now got 2 entries for adobe, the second one had no access priv., so I
duplicated its access like the other one and its ok.

thanks

krish
 
D

Detlev Dreyer

krish said:
I have resolved it. Turns out that in zonealarm pro for some reason it
has now got 2 entries for adobe, the second one had no access priv., so
I duplicated its access like the other one and its ok.

thanks
Click to expand...

You're welcome. BTW, you might be better off when using the built-in WinXP
firewall instead.
 
H

Hertz_Donut

Detlev Dreyer said:
You're welcome. BTW, you might be better off when using the built-in WinXP
firewall instead.
Click to expand...

Truly awful advice. The windows firewall is not SPI, is inbound only, and
is unreliable at best.

You are much better off with ZoneAlarm than Windows Firewall. Windows
firewall is only very slightly better than having no firewall at all.

Honu
 
P

Pop

Hertz_Donut said:
Truly awful advice. The windows firewall is not SPI, is inbound only, and
is unreliable at best.

You are much better off with ZoneAlarm than Windows Firewall. Windows
firewall is only very slightly better than having no firewall at all.

Honu
Click to expand...
The firewall that comes in Windows Live OneCare is quite good!
 
D

Detlev Dreyer

Hertz_Donut said:
Truly awful advice. The windows firewall is not SPI, is inbound only,
Click to expand...

That's the firewall's classic job. No more, no less.
and is unreliable at best.
Click to expand...

Nope. It's as good as any stateful packet filter.
You are much better off with ZoneAlarm than Windows Firewall.
Click to expand...

ROFL! "Entering through the Exits"
http://www.spirit.com/Network/net1103.html

Besides, no good timing to support "Zone Alarm" within this thread since
exactly that software was causing problems once again. EOD.
 
K

Ken Blake, MVP

Hertz_Donut said:
A firewall should monitor both inbound and outbound traffic.


Except that it is not SPI.
Click to expand...



If you are saying that there is no built-in firewall in Windows XP SP1, that
is *not* correct. Not only was there a firewall in SP1, but there was also a
firewall in the original release of Windows XP.
 
R

Rock

If you are saying that there is no built-in firewall in Windows XP SP1,
that is *not* correct. Not only was there a firewall in SP1, but there was
also a firewall in the original release of Windows XP.
Click to expand...


SPI = Stateful Packet Inspection.
 
D

Detlev Dreyer

Ken Blake said:
If you are saying that there is no built-in firewall in Windows XP SP1,
that is *not* correct. Not only was there a firewall in SP1, but there
was also a firewall in the original release of Windows XP.
Click to expand...

Ken, he's talking about SPI (Stateful Package Inspection) rather than
SP1. Anyway, you're correct - even WinXP RTM had a built-in firewall.

SPI (mostly hardware firewalls) vs. SPF (mostly personal firewalls) has
nothing to do with outgoing traffic that he prefers to monitor since he
has no security concept at all. The user cannot really make the decision
if it's secure to allow Internet Explorer or Firefox to access the net
since these requests might be driven by malware as well. On the other
hand, the user might block "svchost.exe" and complains about the weird
behavior of the system.

In other words, it's way better to configure the system correctly in
order to keep any malware away from the system rather than depending
on ZoneAlarm & Co. which can be bypassed easily (tunneling) while
confusing the user with strange messages.
 

Ask a Question

Want to reply to this thread or ask your own question?

You'll need to choose a username for the site, which only take a couple of moments. After that, you can post your question and our members will help you out.

Ask a Question

Similar Threads

Trouble with file association 7
Problems with Skype and IE7 1
Outlook How to create hyperlink with specific page of the pdf attachment in Outlook 2
IE7 link issues 8
Download PDF files from a website 3
Suddenly I cannot open a pdf file? 8
Links in all browsers to .pdf files 2
IE7 Failure to Close 5

Top