A bug has been reported in the adobe reader recently. Information about the flaw in the Adobe reader software was first revealed at the annual conference of the Chaos Computer Club - a venerable German hacker group.The flaw is found in the web browser plug-in of the Adobe Reader software. Ordinarily this allows PDF documents to be viewed in a browser window. By exploiting this hackers could use the links to PDF files stored on any website to attack vulnerable windows systems.
But till now no such activity has come to news though code for this had been generated already. Experts says that this flaw can easily be exploited to get secret information. Security researchers said malicious hackers exploiting the flaw could view victim's hard drives or use it to make phishing scams look more plausible
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Initially it was thought that only users of the Mozilla Firefox users were at risk but now it is known that Internet Explorer users can also be targated very easily like the firefox users. Although an Upgradation task to version 8 of the Adobe Reader removes the risk of falling sytems to the flaw. Thats why web users are being urged to upgrade their Adobe reader from oldversion to new version 8 which removes the flaw.
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