dialyn opened this issue on Jan 04, 2007 · 5 posts
dialyn posted Thu, 04 January 2007 at 10:50 AM
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
Renderosity Community Admin
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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