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I haven't used Adobe Reader for years -- been using FoxIt. But now, FoxIt is bundling the ASK toolbar which also changes your homepage. 
I have seen malware executables that looked like text files, even have the .txt extension. It seems nothing is safe any more.
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Is Adobe particularly vulnerable? I have 'Reader 8'. I keep it up to date.
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Adobe Reader is exploited on a regular basis lately. They do release patches pretty quickly however.
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I haven't used Adobe Reader for years -- been using FoxIt. But now, FoxIt is bundling the ASK toolbar which also changes your homepage.
I have seen malware executables that looked like text files, even have the .txt extension. It seems nothing is safe any more. |
Well right now I see the problem seems to be linked with the latest work that seems to be connected to the all diffcult remove Torpig/Mebroot worm, also working in terms of botnetting 419 spam on a serious to severe scale, since one day I received up to 5 of the 419 scams, and I am sure this PDF exploit sure has something that may connect this with the 419 spam gangs, and worse, I think this may prove to be a bad sign here we maybe loosing the war against malware. |
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