Adobe Reader 9 security issues

Maybe this is old news-first announced 2/24- but just came across it. Described there as "critical." Reduce vulnerability by disabling javascript in Reader preferences. Patch expected 3/11.
http://www.adobe.com/support/security/advisories/apsa09-01.html
Message was edited by: WZZZ

Thanks for the tip, wasn't aware of it myself....
I found it completely by chance. Adobe certainly doesn't exactly go out of their way to publicize these things. They just did an important security update to Flash 10-found also by chance- and there isn't even an updater in Flash 10.
I know you don't use it anyway, but for anyone needing PDF, could always fall back on Preview, I guess, until this thing gets fixed.

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