Business Intelligence Technology » Adobe Reader http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/business-alignment Technology that business can use Sat, 13 Nov 2010 15:45:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Adobe has a bug http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/business-alignment/adobe-has-a-bug/ http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/business-alignment/adobe-has-a-bug/#comments Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:09:53 +0000 Jay Dugan http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/business-alignment/?p=48 Word has been swirling around the security community the past few days that Adobe has another bug, maybe two. Adobe’s Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) posted an update Tuesday afternoon acknowledging the issue that affects Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.1, 8.1.4, and 7.1.1 and earlier versions. Security experts are urging users to switch to another viewer. Adobe’s suggestion posted on the PSIRT site is to disable JavaScript in Adobe Reader and Acrobat with the following instructions:

 

1. Launch Acrobat or Adobe Reader.

2. Select Edit>Preferences

3. Select the JavaScript Category

4. Uncheck the ‘Enable Acrobat JavaScript’ option

 

They don’t say when a fix will be available, just that updates will be provided. This is more than inconvenient as system admin will have to scramble to deal with this issue and users will be hesitant to use this important tool.

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