Adobe Acrobat Reader Security Patch released: five months late
Filed under: Computers, Software | By: Peter Chubb
Posted on: November 5, 2008 | 1 Comment
Adobe has finally released a patch that has been designed to fix eight security vulnerabilities to their Acrobat Reader. One of the fixes will address a security issue that was identified by Adobe five month ago.
Back in May it was reported that the Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader application had a security flaw, which would allow hackers to exploit a users system resources, this would be achieved by launching an attack code on their system.
Adobe Acrobat Reader version 8.1.2 and other old version are affected by this, Adobe believe that Acrobat Reader 9 is not affected by this security flaw. Have you been affected by this security issue?
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On Oct. 5 could not play music from “you tube”. error message said i needed to install the lasted version of Java or install free Adobe Flash Player 9. my java updates every 30 days and was the newest version. downloaded the Adobe. Screen went greyish black. tool bar still at top. was able to go to You Tube. could not open music. went to System to view the Adobe Flash Player to see if it uploaded, open it from there, show same greyish screen, hit exit and computer shut down, crashed! turned computer back on manually, got the screen where i could have done a “safe mode start up” but the key board would not work to curser up there to it. turned computer on and off many time. checked all connections. nothing. left computer running, came back, called Cisnet support. Then when i moved the keyboard, it worked. got up to the “safe mode start up”. Went to restore computer to Oct 1. Computer seemed to be fine. went to yahoo mail. every e-mail in both my yahoo accouts erased. called yahoo. they did a restore. on the account listed above, the number of emails that were int he acct. was 194. the number indicated that they were there but hit inbox and no mail, all lost. i also had 20 folders with an avg. of 30 emails in them, work related info. the other yahoo acct. did restore and i was able to view. Pictures still don’t open correctly on email’s. if i receive pictures in emails and forward them, pictures will not open on the receiver end. i have been doing testing to 5 different people to figure out what is in common with the emails. did all corrections given to me from yahoo. QUESTION, SHOULD I INSTALL ADOBE 8 AGAIN OR GO WITH 9 ??? WHAT DO YOU RECOMMEND