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Adobe has warned that its Reader and Acrobat PDF software is vulnerable to an unpatched vulnerability. A pair of flaws in the JavaScript functions of the PDF reading application are behind the problem, prompting Adobe to advise surfers to disable JavaScript as a workaround, pending the availability of a patch. Even after a …

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  1. Dale

    Why Javascript

    Why does a PDF reader need to be able to run Javascript? To drive upgrades?

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  2. Christopher Ahrens
    Joke

    Surprise surprise....

    Flaws in Adobe software, say it ain't so!

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  3. Grecs
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    No Scripting for You

    Like I said on another post reporting the same thing ... "Scripting just needs to be off by default with a whitelist of known good sites. Users can then customize the whitelist to their own needs ... sort of like NoScript ... except I don't think NoScript works for Adobe products." I'd like to add that maybe alternative readers could also help - e.g., FoxIt. A little bit of variety makes it a little harder to get mass 0wnage at least.

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