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Re:Flame: Massive cyber-attack discovered, researchers say by missing_cipher on Monday May 28, 2012 @12:05PM (#4033909)
Would opening a pdf via Chrome for example provide any extra protection? From what I understand most of the exploits are because of embedded media, no?
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Re:Flame: Massive cyber-attack discovered, researchers say by LiquidSummer on Monday May 28, 2012 @12:20PM (#4033973)
Extra protection as opposed to opening it in adobe reader, yes, much likely. Chrome has a sandbox for pdfs as far as I'm aware, they also provide a lot of big bug bounties to people who find any remote execution bugs in Chrome. So, in conclusion, yes, chrome provides relatively more security than other software when opening PDFs.
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Re:Flame: Massive cyber-attack discovered, researchers say by Danieru on Monday May 28, 2012 @01:17PM (#4034157)
Even better would be firefox's javascript based pdf reader.
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Re:Flame: Massive cyber-attack discovered, researchers say by rbanffy on Monday May 28, 2012 @01:23PM (#4034184)
You can always open it inside a throwaway VM. I keep a couple ;-)
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