If you are running Adobe Acrobat version 7 or later, you are in danger of being exposed to malware infection even if you never actually opened an infected file. There's an unpatched bug in Adobe Acrobat that allows some specially-made PDF to crash Acrobat and inject its own code into your system and install a malware. This bug has been known for some weeks already (and some exploits using this bug has been reported) but Adobe has not yet released a patch that will fix this. What makes this bug very dangerous is the fact that it can trigger a malware infection even if you do not open a pdf file. The best thing to do now is to completely uninstall Adobe Acrobat an wait for the patch before using it again.
The video above demonstrates the exploit.
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puede na bang gumawa ng ang output is pdf? ang alam ko kc, puede na gumawa ng forms, pero program, nde ko alam
March 6, 2009 at 7:11 AMyung code nung bug ay pwedeng ipasok sa metadata nung file kaya kahit di mo i-click yung PDF at i-daan mo lang yung mouse mo doon, pwedeng mangyari ang malware infection.
March 6, 2009 at 7:24 AMyikes mouse over pa lang! katakot!
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