Size: 35.09 MB License: Shareware Price: Free

If you do a lot of internet surfing then it is a virtual certainty that you will be asked to download this software by one site or another at some point. If you use your PC for business purposes then you will probably also need this for reading PDF's sooner or later.

This means that you are just as well downloading it now rather than waiting to be prompted for it by a site or discover that you can't open an important file without it.

Acrobat Reader is the most commonly used program for reading PDF files and this latest version has a lot of added features to let you get more out of it. Some of the icons have changes a little but if you are using an older version you won't have any trouble getting used to the new one.

If you are on an old version then just choose to download the new one and the download assistant will automatically pick up the fact that you have a previous version and do all the necessary work for you.

The package also includes the option of including a free McAfee security package, although if you take this you will get regular messages reminding you to buy the full version, so if you already have a good antivirus program you would be as well un-ticking this option before downloading the reader. If you are currently looking for a new antivirus program then McAfee is one of the best around, and you might like to try out this free trial to see if you like the layout and the interface it uses.

The reader itself isn't that much different from previous versions but you now get to play multimedia files in various different formats and you can submit PDF forms too.

In summary, you will find it hard to use your PC and to surf the internet without the Acrobat Reader. If you already have the previous one on your computer then you will probably get regular prompts to update it anyway, so you would be well advised to simply take a couple of minutes to do the download and then forget about it as it works away in the background letting you use PDFs.

Acrobat Reader X System Requirements Processor 1-3 GHz or above. 256MB RAM, 260MB free disc space. Internet Explorer 7 /8 or Mozilla Firefox 3.5 or 3.6.

Acrobat Reader X Operating Systems Windows 2000/2003/XP/Vista, Android, Mac

Link http://get.adobe.com/reader/