Adobe warns of attacks exploit weaknesses (http://blogs.adobe.com/psirt) in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.1.3 on Windows, Mac OS X and Unix. Adobe said that the attacks will attack the weakness of Acrobat Reader and the new plan will be updated in the patch on October 13. Active exploitation of these targets would lead to the Reader and Acrobat 9.1.3 on Windows. While Adobe patches will become the second security patch for Reader and Acrobat 9.1.3 at this quarter.
According to Adobe, this weakness was not dependent on JavaScript, but Adobe recommends users to disable JavaScript functions until a patch is released. Adobe also recommends the user to continue to update the antivirus product that dimiliknya. In the meantime, users Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.1.3 and with the active DEP (Data Execution Prevention) in Windows Vista will be protected from these attacks, Adobe added.
Meanwhile, according to researchers at the SANS Institute, Johannes Ullrich, the user can also clean Adobe PDF documents to convert to PDF files to alternative formats, such as PostScript, then return it to PDF again. "After all is not possible to remove 100 percent of infections and the computer may be infected as well as file conversion, but is quite powerful way to reduce the risk of attack." Ullrich said.
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