Homemade PDF Patch Beats Adobe By Two Weeks

Posted by kdawson on Monday February 23, 2009 @12:54PM from the p-d-q dept.

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."

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Re:Offensive by zippthorne · 2009-02-23 15:39 · Score: 0, Troll

That is .. awfully young to be both a grandmother and a feminist. Assuming you're telling the truth, though, don't you think it's a little self serving for a woman to be a feminist? I mean, I'm sure Louis XVI was a royalist, but is it really a virtue?

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