On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 05:27:30PM -0800, Godfrey DiGiorgi scripsit: > On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 5:10 PM, Graydon <o...@uniserve.com> wrote: > >> I have no beefs with Adobe. Their software installs easily, quickly, > >> and works very well. They support it when I call with a question. I > >> bank my living on it. > > 80% of malware exploits in 2009 targeted Adobe Reader. > > It's worth avoiding for that reason alone. > > Not one of those on Mac OS X that I am aware of. Is it also worth > avoiding Windows for that reason?
Of course. You can even find august governmental bodies recommending that you not use Windows for online banking or any other financial transaction. Check out <http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/20/adobe_reader_exploit/> for an exploit not known to not work on Macs. Generally, anything that uses security-by-obscurity isn't. Even slightly. -- Graydon -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
