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[hake]

From speedguide.net

Microsoft last Friday urged Windows users to block ongoing attacks against Adobe's popular PDF viewer by deploying one of Microsoft's enterprise tools.

Adobe echoed Microsoft's advice , saying the Enhanced Migration Experience Toolkit (EMET) would stymie attacks targeting Reader and Acrobat.

Called "scary" and "clever," the in-the-wild exploit went public last week when security researcher Mila Parkour reported it to Adobe after analyzing a rogue PDF document attached to spam. Adobe first warned users Wednesday of the threat, but at the time gave users no advice on how to protect themselves until a patch was ready.

"The good news is that if you have EMET enabled ... it blocks this exploit," said Fermin Serna and Andrew Roths, two engineers with the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) in an entry on the group's blog.

Read more: -
http://www.pcworld.com/article/205341/adobe_blocks_pdf_exploit_with_microsofts_help.html

Also see: -
http://blogs.technet.com/b/srd/archive/2010/09/10/use-emet-2-0-to-block-the-adobe-0-day-exploit.aspx

Download EMET 2.0 from: -
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=c6f0a6ee-05ac-4eb6-acd0-362559fd2f04&displayLang=en

Supported Operating Systems: -
Windows 7, Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Vista Service Pack 1, Windows XP Service Pack 3

[tuftedduck]

Thank you for the alert, hake.

Adobe Reader does seem to be beset by security glitches from time to time.....as well as being a huge, bloated program prone to niggles.

Two very good free alternatives are Foxit Reader ( http://www.filehippo.com/download_foxit/ ) .......and PDF-xChange Viewer ( http://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-viewer )  ..........which are both small downloads, very fast and have enough features for the average user.

My current favourite is PDF-xChange Viewer.     

If you want to try one of these, be careful at the installation stage and read all the options presented as they want to add all sorts of toolbars and trimmings.