PDF-XChange Viewer has got great reviews as a PDF reader that can edit
PDF files.  (It was either this or Foxit, and I thought I'd try this
first).  I downloaded the installer from http://pdf-xchange-viewer.en.softonic.com/download.
However, MalwareBytes Free classifies this as
"PUP.ToolbarDownloader".  Ugh, not what I want.  A google search
doesn't find anything informative, at least not in English.  This is
odd, because a real problem usually generates a significant number of
hits.

Has anyone else found this problem?  Has anyone found this to *not* be
a problem?  How bad *is* "PUP.ToolbarDownloader"?  Some installers
don't even ask the user for permission to install toolbars (or ignore
it when the user refuses).  From past experience, I know that I
certainly don't want that kind of situation.

On Fri, 20 Jul 2012 19:27:22 -0700 (PDT), AndyHancock wrote:

> PDF-XChange Viewer has got great reviews as a PDF reader that can edit
> PDF files.  (It was either this or Foxit, and I thought I'd try this
> first).  I downloaded the installer from http://pdf-xchange-viewer.en.softonic.com/download.
> However, MalwareBytes Free classifies this as
> "PUP.ToolbarDownloader".  Ugh, not what I want.  A google search
> doesn't find anything informative, at least not in English.  This is
> odd, because a real problem usually generates a significant number of
> hits.
> 
> Has anyone else found this problem?  Has anyone found this to *not* be
> a problem?  How bad *is* "PUP.ToolbarDownloader"?  Some installers
> don't even ask the user for permission to install toolbars (or ignore
> it when the user refuses).  From past experience, I know that I
> certainly don't want that kind of situation.

I have a version dating from spring of 2010, v. 2.0 (Build 50.0). That came
accompanied by *no* such Toolbar.Downloader. On the other hand, my install
(for Win Vista) came from a ZIP archive, *at that time* nominally at
<http://www.docu-track.com/download/PDFXVwer.zip> , but actually at
<http://c1236872.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/PDFXVwer.zip> .

I have no idea whether those locations still exist, or offer what you want.

The Help|About data on my installation includes the following further info:

> Copyright © 2001-9 Tracker Software Products (Canada) Ltd
> 466 Trans Canada Highway, Duncan, BC. V9L 3R6. Canada. 
> http://www.docu-track.com
> email: sales@docu-track.com  

Further information, then, was to be had at: 

: <http://www.docu-track.com/product/downloads> .

HTH. Cheers, -- tlvp
-- 
Avant de repondre, jeter la poubelle, SVP.

AndyHancock <andymhancock@gmail.com> wrote in
news:65250da7-6010-41f0-b97d-5d7681043e43@6g2000vbv.googlegroups.com: 
> This is odd, because a real problem usually
> generates a significant number of hits.

Perhaps it is not a real problem. I use that viewer and I don't recall any 
problem with a mandatory or silent toolbar installation. Overall, I think 
it is a great viewer, but I dont think that its free version is much of an 
editor.

On Jul 21, 7:25=A0pm, Matti Vuori <xmvu...@kolumbus.fi> wrote:
> AndyHancock <andymhanc...@gmail.com> wrote innews:65250da7-6010-41f0-b97d=
-5d7681043e43@6g2000vbv.googlegroups.com:
>
> > This is odd, because a real problem usually
> > generates a significant number of hits.
>
> Perhaps it is not a real problem. I use that viewer and I don't recall an=
y
> problem with a mandatory or silent toolbar installation. Overall, I think
> it is a great viewer, but I dont think that its free version is much of a=
n
> editor.

tlvp, Matti,

 Based on advice from another forum, I went directly to the
developer's site http://www.tracker-s...xchange-viewer. The download
did not trigger PUP.

Thanks.

On Sat, 21 Jul 2012 22:31:46 -0700 (PDT), AndyHancock wrote:

> On Jul 21, 7:25 pm, Matti Vuori <xmvu...@kolumbus.fi> wrote:
>> AndyHancock <andymhanc...@gmail.com> wrote innews:65250da7-6010-41f0-b97d-5d7681043e43@6g2000vbv.googlegroups.com:
>>
>>> This is odd, because a real problem usually
>>> generates a significant number of hits.
>>
>> Perhaps it is not a real problem. I use that viewer and I don't recall any
>> problem with a mandatory or silent toolbar installation. Overall, I think
>> it is a great viewer, but I dont think that its free version is much of an
>> editor.
> 
> tlvp, Matti,
> 
>  Based on advice from another forum, I went directly to the
> developer's site http://www.tracker-s...xchange-viewer. The download
> did not trigger PUP.
> 
> Thanks.

Glad you found a clean version. Softonics is in the business to make money;
harvesting your clicks via a piece of PUP, PUS or MOPUS is their technique.

Cheers, and enjoy PDFXCview in peace, -- tlvp
-- 
Avant de repondre, jeter la poubelle, SVP.