Adobe appears to be aware of it, if this is what is referred to:
http://www.adobe.com/support/securit...apsa10-02.html
I couldn't find anything relating to the specific threat mentioned on Adobe's site. Nor could I find any on security vendor Secunia's list, or in the Gibson Research security forums at grc.com.
You can see the current list of Adobe security advisories here:
http://www.adobe.com/support/security/
I'm always a bit cynical when an announcement like this stems from a company that sells software designed to protect you from such things.
I use Acrobat Reader here and haven't had problems. One thing I
do do is set the Reader to open as a separate process, instead of installing as a plugin in the browser. This stems from problems a while back where Adobe Reader loaded in the browser as a plugin remained resident in memory even after you had closed the PDF
and exited the browser.
To do so, open Adobe Reader, select Edit/Preferences, and under Internet,
uncheck Display PDF in browser
It forces the Reader to launch as a separate process that
does go away when you exit it.
Adobe embeds a version of JavaScript in the Reader. You can turn that off by selecting JavaScript in Edit/Preferences and unchecking Enable Acrobat JavaScript
Adobe Reader here is set to check for updates, so when Adobe issues a fix I'll get it automatically.
Meanwhile, as others have mentioned,
never open email attachments unless you
know what they are and who they are from. They are a favorite method of delivering malicious content. I use a GMail account as my primary email, so attachments all stay on Google's servers, and never actually reach my machine unless I choose to download them. They get scanned by my A/V software if I do.
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Dennis