Adobe Reader Hijacks Preview as Safari's Default PDF Viewer

Installing the latest Adobe Reader causes Preview to be overwritten by Reader as the default PDF reader in Safari. There's a setting in Adobe Reader prefs that should aloow one to change the setting, but it is greyed out. Thanks Adobe! You'll need to go to your HD/Library/Internet Plug-in folder and remove the Adobe plug-ins. Quit and restart Safari, then Preview is default again.

Thanks very much for your post Bruce.
I was sick of adobe reader always bugging me with updates when i didn't use it so i killed it with appzapper thinking that would be that.  However the two plug-ins in the library/internet plug-ins folder were still there and instead of defaulting back to preview i just got a message to reinstal adobe.
After finding your post, I deleted the adobe plug-ins and preview is back and hopefully all remnants of adobe reader are gone.
Much appreciated

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