Homemade PDF Patch Beats Adobe By Two Weeks

CWmike writes "Sourcefire security researcher Lurene Grenier has published a home-brewed patch for the critical Adobe Reader vulnerability that hackers are exploiting in the wild using malicious PDF files, beating Adobe Systems Inc. to the punch by more than two weeks. Grenier posted the patch on Sunday with the caveats that it applies only to the Windows version of Adobe Reader 9.0 and comes with no guarantees. Also, PhishLabs has created a batch file that resets a Windows registry key to de-fang the hack by disabling JavaScript in Adobe Reader 9.0, giving administrators a way to automate the process."

Comments

Re:Patch

[Brian Gordon]

Who cares?

Re:Offensive

[thebigbadme]

Letting the world know what they find offensive is practically the feminists' national sport. Rather, it would be if they had their own country.

I'm a feminist, and am offended by this claim
(I am a feminist, but am going for funny with this...)

I think the feeling of entitlement that often leads to the bitching comes from something besides the ism/ist in question... at least I attribute it to a sense of entitlement. and by that I don't mean that anyone is not particularly entitled t... ah what's the use

Re:Offensive

[The End Of Days]

Considering the tendency to be extremely picky about the naming of things, you'd think those who subscribe to feminism would realize that the very word conjures up the image of empowering women to run everything. Something a little more inclusive-sounding might be in order to maintain that "all genders" image, no?

Not that I actually care. I laugh at the essential ironies of feminists. I find humor in anyone who takes themselves so seriously.

And people say unix shell is arcane

[Viol8]

I thought windows was supposed to be pointy clicky easy to use? Yeah right, not looking at that load of heiroglyphics it isn't.

Re:Offensive

[Just Some Guy]

People should be willing to step back and recognize the contributions that women in computer science have made.

Why? I don't care what contributions can be directly attributed to which race, sex, or nationality. Whether you're a WASP male or a lesbian in Singapore, if your work is good, it's good. If it's bad, your demographic status doesn't make it better.

I guess I don't get this "minority" hangup from either side of the debate. People who dismiss the contribution of women or treat them badly are ignorant jackasses. Others who want me to put a woman on a pedestal and give her a cookie because she managed to write a linked list with proper error handling are at least as mystifying. You can code? Great! Let's get back to work, shall we?