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Frank J. Lhota wrote:

>>I consider myself rather careful about security, but I run the Adobe
>>Acrobat plugin without concern.
>>
> 
> The Acrobat plug-in has caused me all sorts of grief. I generally try to
> download PDF files before opening them, because the plug-in seems to have
> problems unloading itself, and frequently hangs IE / Win9x in the process.
> Yes, I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling it, and I'm not the only one
> complaining about this.
> 
> If anyone here knows of a fix, other than rewriting the plug-in in Ada,
> please let me know.


Moving beyond Win9x will help. ;-)

Warren.