The latest flaws in Acrobat reader have been annoying at best, and very dangerous to your network at worst.
A few weeks back a security researcher claimed that he found a flaw that was in just about every version of Acrobat Reader that would allow him to take control of a PC.
Petko Petkov, a U.K.-based researcher who found the flaw claimed in a blog posting two weeks ago:
“Adobe Acrobat/Reader PDF documents can be used to compromise your Windows box – Completely!!! Invisibly and unwillingly!!! All it takes is to open a PDF document or stumble across a page that embeds one.”
Adobe finally awoke from their slumber and confirmed the bug. Their fix is amusing. Since the flaw exploits the use of the mailto: url link, they walk you through instructions on how to remove / disable the mailto link!
So that means you no longer can click on an email link and have it launch your email. I think I don’t want to completely break my browser while they take their time finding a fix.
I have a better idea. Get rid of Acrobat off your network, and use a third party reader like foxit (http://www.foxitsoftware.com/)