- - Adobe Reader and Internet Explorer 7 Holes under Attack. If you were an Internet crook, the following item would be music to your ears: A zero-day flaw--a security hole for which no fix is available before attacks are launched--exists in Adobe Reader and Acrobat, and can be exploited by a poisoned PDF file that lets you take over a vulnerable computer. Adobe has released patches for versions 7, 8 and 9 of both programs. Bad Guys went after a bug in Internet Explorer 7 within a week after Microsoft distributed a fix. Those attacks employed a malicious Word document, but crooks could also add hidden code to a hijacked website to create a drive-by download attack. You can install the patch for this browser flaw via Automatic Updates, or you can download it from the link given below More information: Acrobat 9:
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=4375
Acrobat Reader 9: http://get.adobe.com/reader/ Acrobat Reader 7 & 8: http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb09-04.html
Internet Explorer:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=8cd902ec-e018-4b61-80f9-825d973f998e&displaylang=en
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