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Title: Security advisory for Adobe Reader, Acrobat and Flash Player
Post by: pete319 on July 23, 2009, 08:53:53 AM

Read this on Donna's Security Flash
For details visit http://msmvps.com/blogs/donna/archive/2009/07/23/security-advisory-for-adobe-reader-acrobat-and-flash-player.aspx (http://msmvps.com/blogs/donna/archive/2009/07/23/security-advisory-for-adobe-reader-acrobat-and-flash-player.aspx)

Title: Re: Security advisory for Adobe Reader, Acrobat and Flash Player
Post by: Tarq57 on July 23, 2009, 12:33:13 PM

Thanks for this info. This could potentially affect a lot of users, self included.

Title: Re: Security advisory for Adobe Reader, Acrobat and Flash Player
Post by: Alan Baxter on July 23, 2009, 03:39:26 PM

Thanks for the warning, Pete.  I block Flash served from anywhere but trusted sites.  I'll continue to be careful, even after Adobe releases its fix at the end of this month.  Thank goodness Flash blocking protects me from some zero-day exploits.

This has convinced me to add the Adobe Product Security Incident Response Team blog (http://blogs.adobe.com/psirt/) to my feeds.  It warned about this a couple of days ago.

Title: Re: Security advisory for Adobe Reader, Acrobat and Flash Player
Post by: DavidR on July 23, 2009, 03:53:27 PM

There is also another topic on this posted a little before this one, http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=47032.0 (http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=47032.0)

Title: Re: Security advisory for Adobe Reader, Acrobat and Flash Player
Post by: pete319 on July 24, 2009, 08:44:01 AM

You are all welcome

Quote from: DavidR on July 23, 2009, 03:53:27 PM

There is also another topic on this posted a little before this one, http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=47032.0 (http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=47032.0)

Hi DavidR
Yea i noticed it after i posted. oops ;)
I have read that thread and found it interesting.

Title: Re: Security advisory for Adobe Reader, Acrobat and Flash Player
Post by: pete319 on July 24, 2009, 08:50:15 AM

Some more reading: http://msmvps.com/blogs/donna/archive/2009/07/24/websense-alert-on-adobe-products-third-party-patch-is-available.aspx (http://msmvps.com/blogs/donna/archive/2009/07/24/websense-alert-on-adobe-products-third-party-patch-is-available.aspx)

Title: Re: Security advisory for Adobe Reader, Acrobat and Flash Player
Post by: Tarq57 on July 24, 2009, 09:13:14 AM

I'm guessing this is the same Donna Buenaventura  who frequently posts to Cnet (http://forums.cnet.com/5204-6132_102-0.html?forumID=32&tag=rb_mtx;f06-fd)?
Thank goodness for Noscript.

Title: Re: Security advisory for Adobe Reader, Acrobat and Flash Player
Post by: pete319 on July 24, 2009, 09:26:38 AM

Quote from: Tarq57 on July 24, 2009, 09:13:14 AM

I'm guessing this is the same Donna Buenaventura  who frequently posts to Cnet (http://forums.cnet.com/5204-6132_102-0.html?forumID=32&tag=rb_mtx;f06-fd)?
Thank goodness for Noscript.

You are correct

Title: Re: Security advisory for Adobe Reader, Acrobat and Flash Player
Post by: Sesame on July 24, 2009, 09:36:13 AM

Her rinkedin profile here (http://www.linkedin.com/in/donnabuenaventura).  Although I first spotted her at Calendar of Updates but she seems to be very active on the net in general.