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Adobe Reader flaw confirmed

by Steve Wiseman on October 10, 2007 · 0 comments

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The latest flaws in Acrobat reader have been annoying at best, and very dangerous to your network at worst.

A few weeks back a security researcher claimed that he found a flaw that was in just about every version of Acrobat Reader that would allow him to take control of a PC.

Petko Petkov, a U.K.-based researcher who found the flaw claimed in a blog posting two weeks ago:

“Adobe Acrobat/Reader PDF documents can be used to compromise your Windows box – Completely!!! Invisibly and unwillingly!!! All it takes is to open a PDF document or stumble across a page that embeds one.”

Adobe finally awoke from their slumber and confirmed the bug. Their fix is amusing. Since the flaw exploits the use of the mailto: url link, they walk you through instructions on how to remove / disable the mailto link!

So that means you no longer can click on an email link and have it launch your email. I think I don’t want to completely break my browser while they take their time finding a fix.

I have a better idea. Get rid of Acrobat off your network, and use a third party reader like foxit (http://www.foxitsoftware.com/)

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