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Acrobat bug can lead to malware installs without even opening an infected file

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J-Mac:
There's reasons people are "anti" big companies, or quick to give them a hard time.
-tomos (March 10, 2009, 11:25 AM)
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Yeah, like the fact that back about three or four versions ago they added ads into Reader? Or maybe the Yahoo Toolbar they added to their downloads about 5 years ago? I can almost understand why the smaller developers do things like this - they are often struggling and trying to help finance their business. (Not that I condone it - just almost understand it!)

What's Adobe's excuse?  Pigs.

Jim

tomos:
has anyone any news about the patch availability from Adobe? only recently the precursor of this bug was covered in DC, where it was mentioned that "patches aren't likely to be ready until March 11th, 2009".

• Dangerous Adobe Reader Vulnerability In the Wild
-lanux128 (March 10, 2009, 09:54 PM)
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going off-topic briefly
Lanux, you said earlier in thread that you use portable version of reader
Could you recommend a source for that -
I realise they'll take a bit longer to incorporate the Adobe update, whenever that comes ...

lanux128:
tomos: ugpm :)

Josh:
AR 9.1 released. And it still launches almost instantly after a fresh reboot. Guess I am just not affected by all of the "bloat"

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