Pdf security overriden by ppt viewer in Firefox?

I have a secured pdf which was created with Acrobat. It resides on a webpage as a link. I do not control the website. The intent of securing it was to prevent the text from being copied.
When the link to it is followed using internet explorer or google chrome, it opens in Adobe reader and it is definitely secure: you can print it out, but you can not copy any of the text in it.
But, when you open it using the link on this particular website and you are using Firefox, it initially opens with a Powerpoint viewer. In that viewer, you can not only see the pdf, but also lets you copy it. Yikes!!! There is an option to switch to open it in Adobe, and if you do, it is secure again.
I have not tested it on Safari.
Is there any way to prevent the security from being overriden?
Thanks!
SMBurk

Thanks for both your replies. So, if a secure pdf can be copied by other products, I guess the only answer in my situation would be to ask the website owner to use the reader as the default product to open a pdf when folks use Firefox as a browser. OTOH, I guess someone could download the file and then open it with a powerpoint viewer, if they happened to have one.
Oh well, so much for security.
Thanks!
S M Burk

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