Friday, April 24, 2009

Preventing from PDF exploit in Acrobat Reader

After significant quantity of pdf malicious files were found recently since last few weeks, personally feel that need to share some steps to reduce the risks to load malicous pdf files when surfing internet. These steps just an temporarily solutions while waiting new detections from your antivirus company.

Steps:
- Disable Javascript from Acrobat Reader if you are using Acrobat Reader

- Disable browsers from displaying PDFs within browsers


- Check and Update to the latest Acrobat Reader or Acrobat version


After this, I will share some deobfuscate ways to few the pdf javascript.....so please stay tune

Use other PDF reader as alternative are recommended. You may check the list from PDFreaders website . [http://pdfreaders.org/]

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