<p dir="ltr">I did not follow this thread but I did my taxes with Ubuntu live CD without install and saved my PDF files on flash drive to be able to print from windows with adobe software. My kids are using the windows for gaming all the time and I wanted to avoid using it for entering sensitive data. Who knows what lives on this mashine :-) </p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Mar 29, 2014 10:57 AM, "Sean Kilpatrick" <<a href="mailto:kilpatms@gmail.com">kilpatms@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">In order to deal with the GA tax forms I had to give up and download and install Adobe's PDF reader.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">Much to my surprise it set itself as the default pdf reader. WTF?</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">I did not want that. I don't trust Adobe to get security right.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">Is it possible to wall off the default linkage of file types to applications so this kind of thing doesn't happen again?</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">Sean</p>
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