Re: TOOLS: Recently Announced Adobe Reader Security Flaw

["Dana Worley" <dana -at- campbellsci -dot- com>]

On Saturday, January 20, 2007, Bonnie Granat wrote: 

> I've read the article and cannot figure out how a PC is accessed. Can
> someone explain that?

It looks like Adobe allows Javascript to be appended to the end of 
links to PDF files. If you click a link that has this Javascript, it could 
do any number of undesirable things to your computer.

Regards,

Dana W.

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Dana Worley
Software Product Manager/Manager, Software Support Group
Campbell Scientific, Inc. 
Microsoft MVP, Windows Help


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