Once software becomes bloatware, which Acrobat Reader has become, it is ripe for just this sort of abuse. Me, I'm going to get a nice simple PDF reader which does not include any "fancy" add-ons. How about you?
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Friday, October 26, 2007
Symantec Security Response Weblog: We pwn your Desktop!
People will never learn... wake up! It is unfortunate but you must think like the "bad guy/gal" in order to protect yourself. Any unsolicited offer should be immediately suspect. How ironic that offers of "security" actually compromise your system. Why rob a bank or break into a building when you can rob people on the web and get away with it?
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Wednesday, October 24, 2007
McAfee Avert Labs Blog - PDF mailto Exploit: Seen in wild today!
This is the primary problem with all of the additional functionality the most people never use that is built into today's applications like Adobe Reader and Microsoft Office. Please, PLEASE give me simple software that does only what I want. Maybe the industry should look to Mozilla. With Firefox I get a good browser that can be extended on demand
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