Sunday, December 27, 2009
Turn off Javascript in Adobe Acrobat and leave it off
Adobe Acrobat Reader has been plagued countless times throughout this entire decade with malware vulnerabilities arising from programming errors related to its built-in JavasScript interpreter.
As usual, Adobe has instructed users to go into the Preferences for Acrobat and disable the JavaScript interpreter.
I recommend doing that, and also I recommend uninstalling the Acrobat Reader plugin. Looking at PDF files in a web page with Acrobat is too dangerous. This JavaScript problem keeps hitting it. Adobe needs to provide a permanent solution - not a perpetual problem.
Macintosh computers come with the Preview application, which was written by Apple. Macs also have an OS that actually understands PDF really well. The Mac Preview application will not execute JavaScript that is in PDF files. So it is the way to go if you have a Mac. It is bad, actually, to install Acrobat Reader on a Mac. No good will come from it.
For MS Windows computers, just deactivate JavaScript in Adobe Acrobat Reader, and uninstall its plugin. That will make an incredibly huge improvement in the safety of your Windows PC. Keep it that way.
As usual, Adobe has instructed users to go into the Preferences for Acrobat and disable the JavaScript interpreter.
I recommend doing that, and also I recommend uninstalling the Acrobat Reader plugin. Looking at PDF files in a web page with Acrobat is too dangerous. This JavaScript problem keeps hitting it. Adobe needs to provide a permanent solution - not a perpetual problem.
Macintosh computers come with the Preview application, which was written by Apple. Macs also have an OS that actually understands PDF really well. The Mac Preview application will not execute JavaScript that is in PDF files. So it is the way to go if you have a Mac. It is bad, actually, to install Acrobat Reader on a Mac. No good will come from it.
For MS Windows computers, just deactivate JavaScript in Adobe Acrobat Reader, and uninstall its plugin. That will make an incredibly huge improvement in the safety of your Windows PC. Keep it that way.
Labels: web
Hopefully, someday I will get this page to validate!
