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Subject: OT Flaw in Adobe PDF software (it's always something)

dialyn opened this issue on Jan 04, 2007 · 5 posts
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dialyn ( ) posted Thu, 04 January 2007 at 10:50 AM · edited Wed, 31 July 2024 at 9:54 PM

http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8ME8CR00.htm

From Kim Komando's newsletter: "Researchers say that hackers could take over your computer via Adobe Reader. Clicking on a PDF link on any Web site could launch an attack. The flaw affects IE 6 and Firefox. Until this is fixed, don't open PDFs in your Web browser, even from trusted sites."    http://www.komando.com/

Jumpstartme2 ( ) posted Thu, 04 January 2007 at 1:27 PM

Oh goody :glare: blasted hackers

Thanks for the heads up 👍

~Jani

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Miss Nancy ( ) posted Thu, 04 January 2007 at 3:29 PM

I believe this is related to the "URL handler" exploit that was patched in jaguar early on. similar exploits will hopefully be avoided in vista, or at least patched quickly, as they know that these things happened to OS X several years ago.


Ardiva ( ) posted Thu, 04 January 2007 at 7:03 PM

In my Firefox, I just changed the settings to allow .pdf files to save to disk instead of opening up in my browser.
Thank you for the heads up!


darth_poserus ( ) posted Fri, 05 January 2007 at 7:26 AM

So what the heck are the rest of us using Ie supposed to do? Never open up a PDF?

And you are right, it's always something isn't it?

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge." Albert Einstein

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