Potential Vulnerabilities Found in Adobe Reader and Acrobat

In the latest Security Advisor, Adobe has warned its users about a potential vulnerability in Internet Explorer’s ActiveX Controls that could allows hackers to use Adobe Reader, Acrobat to hijack you PC and it may also cause applications to crash. Only Adobe Reader, Acrobat Standard and Professional 7.0.0 and 7.0.8 running on Windows Platform is said to be affected.

Solution:

  1. Exit Internet Explorer and Adobe Reader.
  2. Browse to <volume>:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 7.0\ActiveX.
    Note: If you did not install Acrobat to the default location, browse to the location of your Acrobat 7.0 folder.
  3. Select AcroPDF.dll and delete it.

I use Foxit PDF Reader for viewing all my PDF document, its free and fast.

via TechTites

This post was published by on December 2, 2006

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  • http://ajaydsouza.com/ Ajay D’Souza

    Hey thanks for the link…

  • http://technospot.net/blogs/ Ashish Mohta

    Thx for the link Thilak!!

  • http://www.helloashok.com/ Ashok

    I have acrobat 6, So as per your info, this is not affected.

  • http://ajaydsouza.com Ajay

    Adobe has released Acrobat 8.

    It looks really sexy. Worth upgrading. Also find it loading a lot faster than Acrobat 7. Ofcourse, Foxit is a good solution to simply view PDFs.

  • http://tech-buzz.net Thilak

    Ajay: I would still stick onto Foxit :D

  • http://ajaydsouza.com/ Ajay

    Adobe has released Acrobat 8.

    It looks really sexy. Worth upgrading. Also find it loading a lot faster than Acrobat 7. Ofcourse, Foxit is a good solution to simply view PDFs.