[OT] Security hole in Acrobat and Reader

2009-03-19 Thread Art Campbell
Just as a PostScript to this (sorry...) When one of my 9.0 systems automatically downloaded the 9.1 patch last week, it totally trashed the installation and I had to uninstall, reinstall, and re-patch. Two other systems pulled it in and it worked fine. Art Art Campbell art.campbe

[OT] Security hole in Acrobat and Reader

2009-03-19 Thread Fred Ridder
On Fri, 20 Feb 2009, Art Campbell warned us: > It sounds as if a security hole in all versions of Acrobat and Reader > allows a booby-trapped pdf to execute code on a computer... you can > plug the hole by disabling Javascript in the applications (until Adobe > releases a fix). Adobe issued t

Re: [OT] Security hole in Acrobat and Reader

2009-03-19 Thread Art Campbell
Just as a PostScript to this (sorry...) When one of my 9.0 systems automatically downloaded the 9.1 patch last week, it totally trashed the installation and I had to uninstall, reinstall, and re-patch. Two other systems pulled it in and it worked fine. Art Art Campbell art.campb.

RE: [OT] Security hole in Acrobat and Reader

2009-03-19 Thread Fred Ridder
On Fri, 20 Feb 2009, Art Campbell warned us: > It sounds as if a security hole in all versions of Acrobat and Reader > allows a booby-trapped pdf to execute code on a computer... you can > plug the hole by disabling Javascript in the applications (until Adobe > releases a fix). Adobe issued

[OT] Security hole in Acrobat and Reader

2009-02-20 Thread Art Campbell
It sounds as if a security hole in all versions of Acrobat and Reader allows a booby-trapped pdf to execute code on a computer... you can plug the hole by disabling Javascript in the applications (until Adobe releases a fix). http://www.adobe.com/support/security/advisories/apsa09-01.html http://v

[OT] Security hole in Acrobat and Reader

2009-02-20 Thread Art Campbell
It sounds as if a security hole in all versions of Acrobat and Reader allows a booby-trapped pdf to execute code on a computer... you can plug the hole by disabling Javascript in the applications (until Adobe releases a fix). http://www.adobe.com/support/security/advisories/apsa09-01.html http://v