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- New StopBadware guidelines take aim at software update bundling
- New StopBadware guidelines take aim at software update bundlingAdd Acrobat Reader to itThey sneak in a copy of Adobe Air in my system while installing Acrobat Reader.RE: New StopBadware guidelines take aim at software update bundlingHmm, offhand it sounds like a good idea. I wonder how they'll handle Microsoft's...
- Tags: New StopBadware, New StopBadware guideline, software update, software
- Discussion threads 2008-08-26
- Adobe ships critical PDF Reader, Acrobat patch
- Adobe has shipped a critical update to patch a code execution vulnerability affecting multiple versions of its Reader and Acrobat products. According to Adobe's advisory, the flaw "could potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system." If you have Adobe...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Adobe PDF, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Acrobat Reader, Patches, Security, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-06-24
- Adobe delivers Reader patch (very quietly)
- If you got a prompt to upgrade your Adobe Reader to version 8.1.2 you're not alone. Betcha didn't know it's a major security fix though. Why? You wouldn't know because Adobe hasn't told anyone. The best information you'll get is a few snippets in an Adobe Knowledge...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Adobe Acrobat Reader, Immunity, Security, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-02-06
- Adobe Reader (html)
- This software lets you view and print Adobe Portable Document Format PDF files on a variety of hardware and operating system platforms. The new version of Acrobat Reader provides a host of features that enable you to submit Adobe PDF forms created with fillable form fields in such applications as...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., HTML, Adobe PDF, Adobe Acrobat Reader
- Software downloads 2007-11-06
- Adobe shuts backdoor in PDF Reader, some old versions still vulnerable
- As promised earlier this month, Adobe has shipped a fix for the URI protocol handling vulnerability that left a backdoor open on Windows XP machines with Internet Explorer 7 installed. The patch, rated "critical," addresses multiple flaws in Adobe Reader and Acrobat that could allow an attacker...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Adobe PDF, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Acrobat Reader, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Security, Software, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2007-10-22
- Adobe Acrobat, Reader vulnerable to hacks
- Adobe Acrobat, Reader vulnerable to hacksFix it sooner than laterand no more employee blogs over the fixes that a person can do to work around it, just fix it.
- Tags: Adobe Acrobat Reader, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Systems Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-10-11
- 'High risk' zero-day flaw haunts Adobe Acrobat, Reader
- 'High risk' zero-day flaw haunts Adobe Acrobat, ReaderIn the meantimePeople can use kpdf -- the 3.5.7 version is pretty slick.more reasons to switch to Linux!only on windoze you can get such an attack.Time to switch to Linux.This is the HTML control again!From a comment on the announcement page: I would...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, SECURITY, Web browsers, Foxit, Adobe Acrobat Reader, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Systems Inc., flaw, HTML, High Risk, Linux
- Discussion threads 2007-09-20
- 'High risk' zero-day flaw haunts Adobe Acrobat, Reader
- Adobe's ever-present Acrobat/PDF Reader software is prone to a nasty code execution vulnerability that could expose Windows users to PC takeover attacks. Details of the flaw, which affects Windows XP SP2 with IE7 and Adobe Reader 8.1, 8.0 and 7 are being kept under wraps until Adobe...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Adobe PDF, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Acrobat Reader, Flaw, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Security, Software, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2007-09-20
- Adobe Reader LE (readerle)
- Adobe Reader LE extends Adobe PDF software to mobile phones and consumer electronics devices. Mobile users can now reliably view rich, high-impact, more secure content on a variety of devices, including handsets from Nokia, NTT DoCoMo and other leading manufacturers, car navigation systems, printers, and eBook devices.
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Adobe Acrobat Reader, Adobe Reader LE, Consumer Electronics, Advertising & Promotion, E-books, Personal Technology, Marketing
- Software downloads 2007-08-14
- Adobe Reader SpeedUp (zip)
- Adobe Reader SpeedUp is a simple application that was created to help make the loading time of Adobe's Acrobat/Reader software bearable for everyday use. AR SpeedUp only needs to be used once a process taking only a few seconds and then your version of Reader will be transformed forever. There...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Adobe Acrobat Reader, Adobe Reader SpeedUp, Tools & Techniques, Management
- Software downloads 2007-08-02
- Huh? PDF standardization decision has nothing to do with Microsoft?
- Huh? PDF standardization decision has nothing to do with Microsoft?MS might have something to do with it......but since PDF is widely implemented by developers other than Adobe and there's little or nothing Adobe can do to reverse this, even if they wanted to, it makes sense for them to at...
- Tags: ISO standards, Process improvement, PDF standardization decision, Adobe Acrobat Reader, Adobe PDF, Adobe Systems Inc., Microsoft Corp., ISO
- Discussion threads 2007-01-29
- PDF security risk greater than originally thought
- PDF security risk greater than originally thoughtdoes this flaw work with Evince document reader?It also reads PostScript files, pdf, djvu, etc, etc, so I suppose it would be mo vulnerable? btw it came preinstalled with my free Ubuntu cd, thats why I never found out how to install Adobe Acrobat...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Adobe Systems Inc., Adobe Acrobat Reader, Adobe PDF
- Discussion threads 2007-01-05
- Developing Applications Using Interapplication Communication
- Adobe Acrobat provides support for InterApplication Communication IAC through OLE and DDE on Microsoft Windows and through Apple events and AppleScript on Mac OS. This support allows programs to control Acrobat Professional, Acrobat Standard and Adobe Reader in much the same way as a user would. The user can also...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., IAC/InterActive Corp., Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Acrobat Reader, Construction
- White papers 2006-11-01
- Adobe to bundle in Google toolbar
- Adobe to bundle in Google toolbarBut in the end, IE will winGoogle is spending millions to get their search bar onto computers any way they can, yet people will pay MS when they buy Vista to have MS's search bar on their system.Pretty good, from Microsoft's standpoint, i would imagine.Yet...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, Google Toolbar, Adobe Systems Inc., Google Inc., Xpdf, Adobe Acrobat Reader, Microsoft Corp., toolbar
- Discussion threads 2006-06-21
- sudokuSamplePack (zip)
- This file is a PDF format set of 10 sudoku puzzles. This format was chosen for easy printing for those people who prefer to do their sudoku on paper. These sudoku are easy in difficulty level. You will need Adobe reader to view the file.
- Tags: Adobe Acrobat Reader, Document Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting
- Software downloads 2006-03-02
- Adobe Reader (Pocket PC) (exe)
- Adobe Reader for Pocket PC software lets you view Adobe Portable Document Format PDF files on Pocket PC devices. Adobe Reader for Pocket PC includes two components that work together: The ActiveSync filter runs on the Windows platform. It prepares untagged Adobe PDF files for the Pocket PC and transports...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., PC, Adobe PDF, Adobe Acrobat Reader, Reader, Pocket PC, Handhelds, Operating Systems, Hardware, Software
- Software downloads 2006-02-08
- Encrypt PDF (exe)
- Encrypt PDF software is a very flexible and powerful program, Encrypt PDF software allows you to encrypt (using standard 40-bit or 128-bit supported by Acrobat Reader 5.0 and up) existing PDFs, set permissions, add user and owner password. For example you can encrypt a PDF without to allow to print...
- Tags: Adobe PDF, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Acrobat Reader
- Software downloads 2005-05-28
- Early peek at Adobe Reader 7 for Linux
- Early peek at Adobe Reader 7 for LinuxAnd I thought Adobe had dropped Linux supportThough these are good news, I've got all I need with gpdf and xpdf programs under Linux... However advanced support for some fatures found on selected PDF files would be nice to test. I just hope...
- Tags: UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Linux, Adobe PhotoShop, Adobe Systems Inc., Adobe Reader 7, Adobe Acrobat Reader
- Discussion threads 2005-03-17
- Adobe releases Acrobat 7 with Linux reader support
- Adobe releases Acrobat 7 with Linux reader supportGood newsNow they will have hopefully fixed that crummy Linux interface as well.Yea adobeWe use tons of pdf files and are using the old reader on our 250+ linux desktops it was far timefor a update to the reader.Real linuxers do not care.I've...
- Tags: UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 98, Adobe Systems Inc., Linux, distro, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Acrobat Reader, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2005-01-05
- Adobe smoothes kinks in Acrobat
- Adobe smoothes kinks in AcrobatThere is a big Kink in Acrobat ReaderThose who use a version of windows other than XP have no way of protecting themselves from the three exploits reviewed. If you do not have XP you can not get the patch that corrects the problems in Reader...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows XP, Adobe Systems Inc., Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Acrobat Reader
- Discussion threads 2004-12-31
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