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Oh my...should have seen that coming.
Adobe Reader vuln hit with unusually advanced attack.
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hi !
i have Adobe installed but normally never use it, because of all security problems.
i use Foxit instead, it works very well, have used for 1,5 year now,
i only once had a difficult PDF-document that Foxit couldn´d show properly, then i had to use Adobe.
now (installed 2 days ago) i also have Sumatra PDF:
Sumatra PDF viewer by Krzysztof Kowalczyk
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It's a personal one for me. Foxit does come bundled with an extra BHO, but that can be unchecked.
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hi !
another good reason to use Foxit, is that it uses less memory & HD-space and is faster.
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hi !
a small warning if you install Foxit:
1. do NOT install the ask-toolbar,
2. do NOT install the ebay-shortcut.
Adobe Reader vuln hit with unusually advanced attack.
Posted: 05 Jan 2010
Source -With more than a week until Adobe is scheduled to patch a critical vulnerability in its Reader and Acrobat applications, online thugs are targeting it with an unusually sophisticated attack.
The PDF file uses what's known as egg-hunting shellcode to compress the first phase of the malicious payload into 38 bytes, a tiny size that's designed to thwart anti-virus detection. As a result, just four of the 41 major AV programs detect the attack more than six days after the exploit surfaced, according to this analysis from Virus Total.
Adobe Reader vuln hit with unusually advanced attack ? The Register
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