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(Unverified)Mar 5th 2009 9:43PM
Maybe this is a dumb question, but would Norton 360 (or similar antivirus software) help with this Acrobat problem? Thanks for feedback.
LazyMegaManMar 6th 2009 1:33AM
My educated guess is no. The Acrobat bug is an exploit, meaning it triggers a problem within Acrobat's coding that creates a whole separate problem. Typically an exploit is used to cause the program being exploited to either harm the machine by deleting files, tell the machine to read some info and send it somewhere (like passwords), or tell the machine to download and execute a virus. So in other words, any sort of virus would happen AFTER the bug was exploited, not before.
Long story short: the answer to your question is no. But then again I'm not an expert and I didn't read the security brief on this particular bug.
LazyMegaManMar 6th 2009 1:38AM
Sorry to double-post, but I read the security briefing on this bug real quick out of curiosity. It's pretty vague, but it says Adobe's working with anti-virus companies to get this sorted out. In other words, the anti-virus people are either working on or have already distributed updated virus definitions to avoid this, but since that's not explicitly stated anywhere, they also may not have been able to do anything yet.
Long story short: There is no definite answer to your question. Disable Adobe Acrobat and Reader until they put out a bug fix just to be safe.