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Friday, October 09, 2009

Adobe Reader Critical Vulnerability

It appears the ever popular Adobe Reader (version 9.1.3 and earlier) has a gaping hole that could allow bad people to take over Windows installs. This problem as popped up before. One way to mitigate (but not eliminate) the threat is to disable Javascript in Adobe reader and/or change your browsers behavior to download .pdf files as opposed to view them. You also might want to try the free alternative called Foxit Reader which has a better record when it comes to security issues. Just sayin' . . .