Ditch Adobe Reader Advises Security Guru

“They are almost always attacks that start with an email … coming from a trusted sender, from someone the recipient knows, and it speaks about normal things – work issues, projects, plans, meetings – stuff that’s actually happening.” The emails also come with an attachment, “almost always a document file” such as a PDF, Word, Excel or PowerPoint file. “These attacks are not against PDF – these attacks are against Adobe Reader,” he said. “You open this files in any other reader than Adobe Reader and there is no exploit.” http://www.itnews.com.au/News/279623,fear-of-china-masks-the-work-of-other-web-spies.aspx