Turn off a down arrow within the hand symbol in pdf

While reading pdf files (with Adobe Reader XI) the hand symbol entails an arrow, showing down. If I make a click, the page moves. I find it pretty annoying and would like to turn the arrow off, but keep the hand symbol. I can't find any solution to it in the internet. Can someone help me to deactivate this function?


This is probably due to the "Make hand tool read articles" setting.

You can switch it of by doing the following:

  • Open menu item Edit > Preferences > General
  • Uncheck "Make hand tool read articles"