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Foxit Reassures Customers in PDF False Virus Snafu
Popular Foxit Reader Not Vulnerable to Current Plague of Malicious PDF Attacks
| Source: Foxit Corporation
FREMONT, CA--(Marketwire - December 21, 2009) - Foxit Corporation, a leading provider of
solutions for reading, creating, organizing and securing PDF documents,
today reassured its customers that its award-winning PDF reader products
are virus free, and also not vulnerable to malicious PDF attacks. Earlier
this week, Foxit had been alerted to an erroneous warning message in the
popular anti-virus program, AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 9.0. After
extensive testing by AVG and Foxit, the problem was found to be a
definitions error within the AVG software. AVG has issued a new version its
antivirus software and is available at http://free.avg.com/us-en/homepage.
Foxit's engineering team confirmed that Foxit Reader and Foxit Phantom PDF
Suite are not subject to the malicious PDF attacks plaguing Adobe's reader,
as Foxit PDF products do not include the same JavaScript vulnerabilities
found in Adobe's PDF Reader. A free download of Foxit Reader software is
available at http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/reader.
"Foxit stands by its commitment to provide effective, reliable and secure
PDF applications," said Eugene Y. Xiong, President of Foxit. "I want to
also confirm that our Foxit Phantom PDF Suite and Foxit Reader do not
suffer from the current security 'malicious PDF' problems suffered by some
other vendor's PDF software. It's good news for users of the Microsoft
Windows platform. They can feel safe reading any PDF document with Foxit
products, and use our Reader as an alternative to Adobe's."
Foxit customers can visit our support page at
http://www.foxitsoftware.com/support/ to view the latest support posts
along with any new updates.
About Foxit
Foxit Corporation, a Microsoft Certified Partner, is at the forefront of
cost-effective electronic document solutions. Customers of Foxit's
award-winning products include major technology and healthcare companies,
global financial services firms and government agencies. Founded in 2001,
Foxit Corporation believes in innovative, standards-based technology and
unrivalled customer support, with a deep commitment to sustainable,
environmentally sound products and services.