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Re: Disable Adobe Reader javascript?


From: Roger Safian <r-safian () NORTHWESTERN EDU>
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 08:42:04 -0500

At 11:11 AM 4/29/2009, Gary Flynn put fingers to keyboard and wrote:
Anyone ever heard of problems after disabling javacript
in Adobe Reader or know of it commonly being used?
We're considering pushing it as policy to managed
workstations due to the frequency of security defects
discovered and exploited in Adobe Reader. Two zero
days since the beginning of the year.

We recommended this the last time there was a Reader exploit.
AFAIK, we had no problems.


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