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davidh
February 16th, 2010, 10:20 PM
acrobat 9.3&8.2 critical update

I updated today, by Help, Check for updates. Easier than thru web site, I think.

ndebord
February 17th, 2010, 07:02 AM
acrobat 9.3&8.2 critical update

I updated today, by Help, Check for updates. Easier than thru web site, I think.

David,

Thanks for the heads up... after too many exploits and late patches from Adobe I moved on to FoxIt Reader and just recently, Scientific and Technical Documentation Viewer (STDU).

http://www.stdutility.com/?utm_source=FreeSoftware&utm_medium=STDUViewer

davidh
February 17th, 2010, 11:42 AM
David,

Thanks for the heads up... after too many exploits and late patches from Adobe I moved on to FoxIt Reader and just recently, Scientific and Technical Documentation Viewer (STDU).

http://www.stdutility.com/?utm_source=FreeSoftware&utm_medium=STDUViewer
BTW you probably already know this. Secuna apparently also DOES monitor vulnerabilities for FoxIt products:

http://secunia.com/advisories/product/SOFT_F/#list

I would hope that this also means that Secunia PSI covers FoxIt too?

ndebord
February 17th, 2010, 11:13 PM
BTW you probably already know this. Secuna apparently also DOES monitor vulnerabilities for FoxIt products:

http://secunia.com/advisories/product/SOFT_F/#list

I would hope that this also means that Secunia PSI covers FoxIt too?

David,

Don't recall, as I don't run Secuni PSI any more, nor FoxIt now.

<wry grin>

davidh
February 18th, 2010, 01:28 PM
David,

Don't recall, as I don't run Secuni PSI any more, nor FoxIt now.

<wry grin>
I used to run Secunia PSI "on demand". Now I have it in my startup.

After being recently infected with a hard to detect and hard to kill Trojan, I'm much more leery.

I'll probably never find out for sure where the infection came from. I'm guessing it came from a program download of a reputable program from a reputable site. If that is the case then maybe one of the mirrors had an infected version of the file. If such be the case , then Secunia would not have been a solution.

Perhaps the only solution would have been to submit the setup EXE to virustotal. However since it may well have been a zero day threat, even that strict measure might have failed. Perhaps the only thing that saved me was the behavioral scanning by Threatfire and by Surfright Hitman Pro.

ndebord
February 21st, 2010, 08:22 AM
I used to run Secunia PSI "on demand". Now I have it in my startup.


David,

Well, I do have Secunia PSI sitting around, so I ran it after your posts. It seems my manual attempts at updates have been a success and I am (right now that is) up-to-date. <woo-woo>

<g>

My last major infection happened a few months ago and the end result was I had to fdisk and format. Luckily, I had program and data backups of just about everything. Since then, I commonly run SyncBack to an external USB hard drive every week *usually about now!