I already dumped Adobe Reader for Foxit Reader
as it is tiny in size, runs fast, and consumes less system resources.
Today, I was checking a mutual fund consolidated statement, which was
not opening in Foxit as it was intended to be opened only in Adobe
Reader. So, I went to Adobe Reader website to download it. I was
browsing through Firefox. It downloaded a plugin called “Adobe DLM” to
download the reader. It asked me to restart the Firefox and then
started downloading McAfee Scanner without my permission, installed it,
and then started downloading Adobe Reader. It looked to me nonsense.
Why the hell we need the plugin and a virus scanner just to install the
Reader.
So, I did a search on the Internet and found the direct FTP link to
it. I thought it would post this direct link for the people to download
easily without going through the hassles of plugins and scanners. Here
you go:
Click on your respective operating system. Hint: win
for Windows. Then, select the latest version. At the time of this
writing, the latest version is 9.x. Then, the latest release. Again,
at the time of this writing, the latest release was 9.4.0. Click on
that and then, select you language. For English, select en_US. You can download either EXE file or MSI. EXE is smaller in size, so it will be the best option.
I have Deep Freeze installed in my system, so after installing Adobe Reader and reading the Adobe-only Mutual Fund Statement, I just restarted my system and it went back to its earlier state making it Foxit Reader-Only system 
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