Security
The latest security bulletins from Adobe are published on their Security bulletins and advisories page.
From Version 3.02 onwards, Acrobat Reader (now Adobe Reader) has included support for JavaScript. This functionality allows the document creator to include code which executes when the document is read. While JavaScript is designed without direct access to the file system to make it "safe", vulnerabilities have been reported for abuses such as distributing malicious code by Acrobat programs. McAfee predicted that Adobe software, especially Reader and Flash, would be the primary target for software attacks during 2010. Adobe applications had already become the most popular client-software targets for attackers during the last quarter of 2009.
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