Jun 26
Holes in Adobe PDF apps are under near-constant assault these days, leading one antivirus researcher, Mikko Hypponen of F-Secure, to call them “the new Internet Explorer”, a reference to a days when IE 6 was target of choice. Hypponen even suggests ditching Reader for a free alternative (see pdfreaders.org).
If you continue to use Adobe Reader or Acrobat, turn off JavaScript (as Adobe recommends) to help guard against an as-yet unpatched security vulnerability affecting all supported versions of the programs: Continue reading »
