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[Techie Corner] Preferences -> JavaScript Uncheck the Enable Acrobat JavaScript and click Ok Keep your Adobe Acrobat Reader up to date to avoid any attack, or you can use some other PDF reader :) " />
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[Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC)] MS-ISAC Advisory #2009-086 (12/15/2009) - Vulnerability in Adobe ...: Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat are prone to a remote code execution vulnerability when handling malicious PDF files. The vulnerability is found in a JavaScript function and is caused by an unspecified memory corruption error, which could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary code.
[D' Technology Weblog] Mitigate zero-day exploit in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.2: Security experts say the flaw lies in the way Adobe's software executes JavaScript code, and Adobe offered a few workarounds: the simplest way is to turn off JavaScript in Reader and Acrobat. Security experts've long recommended this .
[Revelations From An Unwashed Brain] Adobe Explains Lack Of Patch for Exploit ~ Revelations From An ...: Adobe, not wanting to be accused of being careless, like the Microsoft crowd, has decided to release an explanation for the lack of jumping on a repair for the problem plaguing the ever-attacked Acrobat Reader. (Some may call it Adobe Reader, but I happen to have a memory, and know what it was called from the start.)
[JetLib News] Adobe Warns of Reader, Acrobat Attack | JetLib News: According to malware tracking group Shadowserver, the vulnerability is due to a bug in the way Reader processes JavaScript code. Several 'tests have confirmed this is a 0-day vulnerability affecting several versions of Adobe Acrobat .
[Computer Nerds Blog] Adobe Warns of Reader, Acrobat Attack: According to malware tracking group Shadowserver, the vulnerability is due to a bug in the way Reader processes JavaScript code. Several ‘tests have confirmed this is a 0-day vulnerability affecting several versions of Adobe Acrobat [Reader] to include the most recent versions of 8.x and 9.x.
[Latest Posts] adobe reader threat - disable java now :: elcentcom's blog: With that said we can tell you that this vulnerability is actually in a JavaScript function within Adobe Acrobat [Reader] itself. Furthermore the vulnerable JavaScript is obfuscated inside a zlib stream making universal detection and intrusion detection signatures much more difficult.
[Geek-News.Net] Geek-News.Net: Adobe Warning Of Potential Adobe Reader and Acrobat ...: To disable JavaScript in Adobe Reader or Acrobat on Windows, users must select Preferences from the Edit menu, choose "JavaScript," then uncheck the "Enable Acrobat JavaScript" option. (On the Mac, Preferences is under the "Adobe Reader" or "Adobe Acrobat" menus.)
[Revelations From An Unwashed Brain] Another Month, Another Adobe Exploit ~ Revelations From An ...: Moreover, the rich editing and formatting capabilities of the Acrobat application keep many distributors of information solidly in the Adobe corner. Microsoft has nothing to compare, and does little to nothing for non-Microsoft platforms (this is the true genius that was at the beginning of the Acrobat project, cross platform compatibility was there from the start.)
[Erictric] Adobe Issues Warning of An Attack Against Adobe Reader and Acrobat: “This afternoon, Adobe received reports of a vulnerability in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.2 and earlier versions being exploited in the wild (CVE-2009-4324). We are currently investigating this issue and assessing the risk to our customers.
[ESET ThreatBlog] PDF - Pretty Darned Fatal | ESET ThreatBlog: The main application of Javascript in PDFs (as I understand it) is for corporate forms validation, although I recently found out that sometimes Google Docs uses it for printing. But perhaps if there were a policy you could set, and eventually they could make this mandatory, that JavaScript is disable unless the PDF is signed by a trusted CA, and optionally from a specfic whitelist of signers.
[SpywareRemove Blog] Security Warning: Adobe Security Hole Exploited by Hackers ...: Only a few anti-virus vendors have detected malicious PDF files harboring this exploit. At the moment, there is no patch available for this flaw, and Adobe’s brief advisory offers little in the way of mitigation advice.
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