Re:Germany warns against use of Firefox browser due to secur...
by ronnier on Monday March 22, 2010 @05:57PM
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I recommend removing the Adobe Acrobat plugin from FireFox. Just last night while visiting a trusted site, it tried to launch an exploited Adobe Acrobat file. The file was served from a 3rd party ad site that had been hacked. Dangerous.
Re:Germany warns against use of Firefox browser due to secur...
by ugh on Monday March 22, 2010 @05:12PM
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A government office which warns when widely used browsers have vulnerabilities – good idea or bad idea? I’m not really all that sure about that.
(But here’s a idea for you: find a way to keep the 4+ browsers I have installed in sync so that I can switch at a moments notice without any problems.)
http://www.metasploit.com/modules/exploit/windows/fileformat...
Adobe themselves also need to update, since if you go download from their website, they'll give you 9.3.0:
http://ardownload.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/win/9.x/9.3/enu...
... Hopefully the non-sentient Internet browser will have something to say for its self a bit later on.
(But here’s a idea for you: find a way to keep the 4+ browsers I have installed in sync so that I can switch at a moments notice without any problems.)