Malicious PDF documents on the rise...

There are some nasty malicious PDF files (read more…) going around the Internet for which most Anti-Virus tools provide little or no detection. As a good security precaution, if you use or read PDF files, you should take the following two actions:



1. Make sure you are using the latest version of Adobe Reader (formerly known as Adobe Acrobat Reader), which as of this writing is 9.2.0 (Open Adobe Reader and choose Help->About… to see what version you have installed, and then Help->Check for Updates to get the latest version.)
















2. Open Adobe Reader and disable JavaScript by choosing Edit->Preferences->JavaScript and the uncheck the checkbox next to “Enable Acrobat JavaScript” as shown below.


















Wishing you a safe computing year in 2010,

-boni bruno