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Useful Features in Acrobat 9

Published on May 25, 2010 By Brian

Acrobat is well known for its ability to create professional and polished PDF files. In the latest version of Acrobat new tools are introduced that will change the way we interact with PDF files. Acrobat now allows you to create stunning multimedia documents, and share them as you would with any other PDF. There are [...]

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Trend Micro Discovers Another Adobe Vulnerability

Published on January 8, 2010 By Lansia

Trend Micro detected TROJ_PIDIEF.WIA, a trojan that arrives as a mass email attachment. This trojan may also be downloaded by visiting malicious Web sites. According to Trend Micro’s malware blog, it “uses the heap spray technique to execute shellcode in its stream.” This, in turn, infects your system with the malicious backdoor file, BKDR_POISON.UC, and [...]

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Acrobat.com Moves Out of Beta and Offers Paid Subscriptions

Published on June 16, 2009 By Kevin

Adobe recently announced some major updates to its popular Acrobat.com service. According to their press release, Adobe has moved Acrobat.com out of beta testing and is now offering two paid subscription services. Since its launch about a year ago, over 5 million people have signed up to use Acrobat.com for sharing documents and online team [...]

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PitStop Pro – Save Over $100 This Week Only!

Published on March 16, 2009 By Lisa

Enfocus PitStop Professional 08 is only $588 (MSRP $699) through Sunday, March 22 at SoftwareMedia. PitStop Professional is a must have for any PDF production workflow and integrates great with Adobe Acrobat. PitStop Pro goes beyond preflight (a standard process in most graphic arts workflows) and delivers customizable preflight reports. PitStop Professional’s automated corrections save [...]

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Security Updates for Adobe Acrobat 9 and Reader 9

Published on March 11, 2009 By Kevin

We reported a few weeks ago that Adobe had discovered some critical vulnerabilities in Acrobat and Reader caused by malformed JavaScript in PDF files. This would cause the application to crash and then potentially allow an attacker to gain control of the system. In this article we offered a temporary fix to the problem, but [...]

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Adobe Acrobat Security Flaws

Published on February 27, 2009 By Kevin

Adobe recently released a security bulletin regarding a security flaw in Adobe Acrobat 9, Reader 9, and previous versions of both products. Current security breaches are a result of malformed JavaScript in PDF files. Adobe plans on releasing a critical update in the coming weeks, but in the meantime you should protect your system by [...]

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