Defending against malicious PDFs with SumatraPDF

We've seen it time and time again: someone sends an employee an email with a malicious attachment, they open the attachment and all hell breaks loose soon thereafter.

One enabler for this type of attack is widely used, bloated, buggy software. Opting instead for small (not many bells and whistles), unpopular software makes you safer. This is especially important when dealing with files from strangers (and any file attached to an email message should be considered coming from a stranger).

This is not to suggest un-installing Word and restricting yourself to WordPad. Rather, just that opening files in WordPad is safer; no macros, for example.  The epitome of bloated popular software is probably the Adobe PDF Reader.