Rocket PDF is an adware that is installed in your computer thanks to free software they sponsor. Even though on its own it might not be that dangerous, that doesn’t stop it from slow down your browsing, change the link from several files so they are opened with this program, being the source of many system bugs, show huge amounts of ads and save your personal data. Rocket PDF‘s creator have not gone long in the efforts to create this software, all they did was modify SumatraPDF’s code source. SumatraPDF is a legit open source code PDF reader, which allows people to modify its code, which Rocket PDF’s creator did, afterwards the added the adware and changed the name, making sure it was distributed via freeware.
As if this wasn’t enough, they have also make sure that Rocket PDF is really hard to uninstall, they went as far as make sure that it disappears from time to time from the programs list on Windows control panel so they uninstall could be stopped.
Rocket PDF could also be the source of system issues, which is why we advice you to completely re-install your system if the programs presented in our guide don’t manage to get rid of it completely.
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