Adobe Reader X - Sandbox
Adobe released the Reader X version today. This is the version of Reader that has sandbox feature built-in, there is now a degree of separation between the OS and the potentially malicious PDF files. The same sandbox mechanism had been implemented in Google Chrome and also MS Office. Containment of the harmful files lessen the damage should a successful attack were to happen. Given the amount of 0-day attacks on this software, we recommend our readers on Windows platform to upgrade to this version of Reader soon to leverage the sandbox technologies. While it does not prevent all exploitation, every little bit helps.
Adobe has written a series of blog entries explaining the sandbox mechanism. A good read if you are curious how it helps to protect against attacks.
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fastoy
Nov 19th 2010
1 decade ago
Shawn
Nov 20th 2010
1 decade ago
JJ
Nov 20th 2010
1 decade ago
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/860/cpsid_86063.html#main_antivirus
Fred
Nov 20th 2010
1 decade ago
We're still using v8 because Adobe removed MDI in v9 and now vX. We have a half dozen docs open at a time and with Adobe Reader launching a new instance for each doc and splattering them all over the monitor we simply cannot use the newer versions. If anyone knows of a good replacement that still has MDI and can use FDF files, we'd sure like to know.
JJ
Nov 20th 2010
1 decade ago
The Adobe Customization Wizard 9 does not work with it, and I don't see a newer version...
Without that, deploying with GPO is going to be almost non-possible.
Althornin
Nov 22nd 2010
1 decade ago
James
Nov 22nd 2010
1 decade ago
Philip
Nov 24th 2010
1 decade ago
daem0n647
Nov 24th 2010
1 decade ago