A posting on Slashdot alerted me to a vulnerability in Adobe Reader of the ultra bad sort, the sort that allows hackers to take over your computer. There is a patch from Adobe. If you have Adobe Reader 9, you can load the patch from within Adobe. Just open Adobe Reader, click on Help and then click on "Update" and the patch will download and install.
The Slashdot posting implied that patches only exist for Adobe Reader 9, and earlier versions are vulnerable and unpatchable. If you are running earlier Adobe Readers, it might be a good time to upgrade. The program is a free download.
Most computers have Adobe Reader on them, it's free and it's a standard. If you web surf, you will click on a .pdf file sooner or later and that will start Adobe Reader, so this one ought to be fixed even if you don't use Adobe. After applying the patch, my Adobe Reader now shows version 9.1.0 in the Help About box.
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