Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Adobe Reader 9.1 fix critical vulnerability

For those of you who still uses Adobe Reader to view all your PDF format files, just so you'll know, there's a new version out now; version 9.1. I recommend you update your Reader or if you have the full Adobe Acrobat version; update that too, this effects both the free Adobe Reader and full Adobe Acrobat versions, what do I mean by effect?

There seems to be a vulnerability found on those Adobe products below version 9.1 i assume; which allow hackers to exploit, I guess we heard this all the time, but this bug has already been around for 2 months without any fix, so hackers might already been exploitin' it, which in turn classify this update as a 0-day patch; I believe that means, there's no time to waste, update it NOW! hmm


I've personally stop using Adobe Reader for a long time, ever since I found Foxit Reader, another free PDF reader which I found much snappier and smaller compare to the original Adobe Reader, for a high end computer maybe that's not a problem but for the moderate and below, I recommend Foxit Reader.

I've been using it for years and found no serious problems with it, if all you do it to open PDF files, you should use it; and maybe do a little gettin' use to if you're with Adobe for a long time; overall it's just similar, for me what else I need to know other than zoom-in, zoom-out, scroll up and down, next page, previous page :) So why the need for the bigger resources hogging Adobe Reader when you can get somethin' smaller and simple, but that's just me, try it, you might like it.

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