Finnish F-Secure is recommending people to stop using Adobe Reader due to
all security vulnerability in that software lately.
This year over 47% of all direct attacks have been using security problems
in Adobes softwares according to Mikko Hyppönen from F-Secure. His advice
is to completely stop using Adobe Reader and instead switch to some other
reader. There are plenty of free PDF readers at www.pdfreaders.org, a
website listing free PDF readers. If everyone is using different PDF
readers it’s much more difficult to do direct attacks against security
vulnerabilities in just one of the readers.
Last month Adobe secured a vulnerability that had been used by attackers
for several months, and Hyppönen is saying that Adobe must increase their
focus on security issues.
