You get it from the Foxit website. The trick is to uncheck the "make Ask my homepage" and similar checkboxes when you run the installer. As long as you take a few seconds to read the options on each box during installation, rather than clicking "OK" without thinking, you should be fine.
(And while Ask and similar stuff is an irritation, it is not by any stretch "malware" - there is a huge difference. If you install it accidentally, you can just uninstall it.)
I don't know the specifics of the "Ask" stuff and I'm not interested in experimenting to find out. I have read that some of these toolbars are a PITA to get rid of and many of these install scripts install various crap even if you ask that it *not* be installed. In fact, I think I read that sourceforge was bundling downloads the same way. It seems to be a practice that is growing in popularity.
If it is stuff that is being pushed on me when I don't want it, it is malware.
I don't remember off-hand if it is Ask or something else that Foxit installs if you don't uncheck the right boxes. But I can certainly tell you that Foxit is easy to install, the "extras" (which are not "malware", merely "irritationware") it pushes will not be installed if you uncheck the boxes, and if you /do/ install them accidentally, they are easy to remove. It is a vastly better pdf reader than Adobe's crap
- it is a fraction of the size, a fraction of the security risk, vastly easier to update, and much faster in use. We use it as standard on Windows machines, as do many other companies.
But it is /your/ choice, of course.
I use Foxit for viewing and CutePDF to create PDFs. Both are much smaller and faster than the equivalent Adobe bloatware.
Right, you have to read the options during the installs.
I use pdfCreator rather than CutePDF, but they are much the same for simple usage - both are printer interfaces around Ghostscript.
Of preference, of course, I generate pdf's directly from LibreOffice or pdfLaTex.
Its amazing how many people don't pay any attention to these things.
I've tried both and prefer pdfCreator.
At one time I didn't either. It's not difficult to get rid of most of the gunk, though.
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