Re: Fw: Adobe confirms PDF zero-day attacks. Disable JavaScript now | Zero Day | ZDNet.com

Subject: Re: Fw: Adobe confirms PDF zero-day attacks. Disable JavaScript now | Zero Day | ZDNet.com
From: Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com>
To: TechWR List <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 08:36:41 -0800

If you leave Acrobat Javascript enabled, you probably want to disable
automatic loading of PDFs in your browser.

Personally I'm just going to enable Javascript temporarily when necessary.

Adobe used to be a great company, but they've gone so far downhill I
think they may actually be worse than Microsoft at this point.

On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 7:04 AM, Karen Graziano <kmgraziano03 -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote:
> http://www.adobe.com/support/security/advisories/apsa09-07.html
>
> Just located the Adobe security advisory. Here is the link. This indicates
> that a patch should be available by Jan. 12.  If you are using PDFs from
> trusted sources, it appears you should be OK if you leave the JavaScript
> enabled. But definitely disable it before opening any PDFs from sources you
> can't confirm are trustworthy.
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