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For anyone who hasn't heard, Acrobat has announced a critical vulnerability in version 7.x of Acrobat and Adobe Reader for Windows when used with Internet Explorer. The vulnerability can allow an attacker to take complete control of a system, if they can convince the user to open a malicious PDF file in IE. There are no known exploits of it yet. Recommended solutions include upgrading to the 8.x versions of the programs (Reader 8 was just released) or updating the Acrobat ActiveX control (acropdf.dll) for IE. The Adobe advisory is at: http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb06-20.html --Chris ============================================== Chris Wolf Computer Service Manager Agricultural Economics [log in to unmask] Michigan State University 517 353-5017