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Adobe Confirms Unpatched PDF Backdoor

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the machines-wide-open dept.

50Mat writes "Adobe has fessed up to a dangerous code execution vulnerability affecting software programs installed on millions of Windows machines. The flaw, publicly disclosed more than three weeks ago, could allow hackers to use rigged PDF files to take control of Window XP computers with Internet Explorer 7 installed. It affects Adobe Reader, Adobe Acrobat Standard, Professional and Elements and Adobe Acrobat 3D."

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  1. Mod offtopic + Troll + Flamebait by GonzoTech · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Typical Adobe. This business model approach is startling, but the good news is that it hasn't reached Microsoft's proportions of stupidity. On a side note, ... The flavor text at the bottom of the page, "If the rich could pay the poor to die for them, what a living the poor could make!" Don't Republicans already do this with our soilders in Iraq?

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    "Snatching defeat from the mouth of victory on a daily basis."
  2. Re:Alternative PDF viewer? by somersault · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Doesn't matter, you probably still don't want IE7.. yuck! :P

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    which is totally what she said
  3. Hackers ? by kjhambrick · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "Adobe has fessed up to a dangerous code execution vulnerability affecting software programs installed on millions of Windows machines. The flaw, publicly disclosed more than three weeks ago, could allow hackers to use rigged PDF files to take control of Window XP computers with Internet Explorer 7 installed. It affects Adobe Reader, Adobe Acrobat Standard, Professional and Elements and Adobe Acrobat 3D."

    Uhhh ... WTF is a hacker ?