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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



5 Comments and Trackbacks (Add Your Own)

  1. Hey thanks for the link…

  2. Thx for the link Thilak!!

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

  4. Adobe has released Acrobat 8.

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

  5. Ajay: I would still stick onto Foxit :D

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