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How to choose between Adobe or Edge to open PDF downloaded from external source?

Anonymous
2023-05-03T03:42:43+00:00

I need guidance on how to open PDFs which are Product User Manuals and Engineering Drawings with least security risk.

However, antivirus (up to date and active) is insufficient according to advice from following website: avoid unknown sender; ensure PDF is not executable

How to decide whether Edge Browser or Adobe is safer to open Product User Manuals and Engineering Drawings when they do not contain multi-media nor animations?

Please correct me if wrong, I prefer Adobe for its following features not explicitly shown on Edge

  1. Sandbox Protection
    1. Enabled Protected Mode at Startup
    2. Run in AppContainer
    3. Protected View Enabled for Files from potentially unsafe locations
    4. Enhanced Security Enabled
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  1. Anonymous
    2023-05-03T05:28:54+00:00

    Thanks Greg, I am posting question to your suggested site.

    However, I believe home user would have same question and therefore am including my post here

    How to choose between Adobe or Edge to open PDF downloaded from external source

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-05-03T04:52:20+00:00

    Hello, I'm Greg, here to help you with this.

    I think your analysis is spot on. Adobe Reader is much more seasoned by decades of use than the upstart browser PDF Readers. As a result I would trust it more as of now for more protected usage.

    However if the need is for an organization or Enterprise I would ask this to your System Admin, or at our sister forums for IT Professionals, Q&A forums here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-US/answers/index....

    Microsoft Community is strictly an end-consumer forum. Solutions we give here will conflict with the organization''s Group Policy which we do not use in consumer forums at all. Security needs are also quite different.

    There are also equally good (and sometimes busier) 3rd party IT Pro forums here:
    https://www.techrepublic.com/forums/
    https://www.spiceworks.com/

    I hope it helps.

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    Standard Disclaimer: There are links to non-Microsoft websites. The pages appear to be providing accurate, safe information. Watch out for ads on the sites that may advertise products frequently classified as a PUP (Potentially Unwanted Products). Thoroughly research any product advertised on the sites before you decide to download and install it.

    Thanks for providing direction, however when asking question on Microsoft Community, there is "For Business Option" to select, is posting Business question to Microsoft Community allowed for Office App but not Edge?

    Also, IMHO until following are restricted to IT user only, as a non-IT end user, I should understand how to use them to open PDFs from external source.

    1. Adobe Security Setting
    2. Edge

    Thanks and Kind Regards,

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-05-03T05:30:46+00:00

    I answered your question in my first post. Please let me know if you have any other questions.

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-05-03T05:19:48+00:00

    We are instructed to direct organization questions to IT Pro forums. If there is an Edge for Business choice in MS Community they you can ask it there, otherwise I would ask at the IT Pro forums I referred if you have additional questions, because we can only give consumer solutions here, and organization considerations are different and can even conflict.

    I hope it helps to know exactly where to get the best help.

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-05-03T04:34:39+00:00

    Hello, I'm Greg, here to help you with this.

    I think your analysis is spot on. Adobe Reader is much more seasoned by decades of use than the upstart browser PDF Readers. As a result I would trust it more as of now for more protected usage.

    However if the need is for an organization or Enterprise I would ask this to your System Admin, or at our sister forums for IT Professionals, Q&A forums here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-US/answers/index....

    Microsoft Community is strictly an end-consumer forum. Solutions we give here will conflict with the organization''s Group Policy which we do not use in consumer forums at all. Security needs are also quite different.

    There are also equally good (and sometimes busier) 3rd party IT Pro forums here:

    https://www.techrepublic.com/forums/

    https://www.spiceworks.com/

    I hope it helps.

    ____________________________________________

    Standard Disclaimer: There are links to non-Microsoft websites. The pages appear to be providing accurate, safe information. Watch out for ads on the sites that may advertise products frequently classified as a PUP (Potentially Unwanted Products). Thoroughly research any product advertised on the sites before you decide to download and install it.

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