JW Network Consulting » computer security http://www.jwnetworkconsulting.com Watching the network so you don't have to. Sun, 30 Oct 2011 22:06:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Disable JavaScript in Acrobat Reader http://www.jwnetworkconsulting.com/security/disable-javascript-in-acrobat-reader http://www.jwnetworkconsulting.com/security/disable-javascript-in-acrobat-reader#comments Sat, 16 May 2009 04:16:46 +0000 Jason http://www.jwnetworkconsulting.com/?p=231 There have been a few vulnerabilities lately with Adobe Acrobat Reader handing malicious javascript badly and this post is to show how to disable javascript in Acrobat Reader.  While disabling an entire piece of functionality seems a bit like over kill, there are a couple of reasons that you may want to do this.

  • Adobe was kind of slow patching the issue.  The issue was reported on 4/28/09 and a patch was released on 5/13/09.  During this time, there were reports of active exploitation being done via this issue.
  • I don’t know of many PDF files that I’ve seen which use javascript, so even having this functionality seems a bit odd to me.

If Adobe isn’t real fast at patching and there’s really no reason to actually have the technology available, why run it?  So here is a quick video which shows how to disable javascript.


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]]> http://www.jwnetworkconsulting.com/security/disable-javascript-in-acrobat-reader/feed 0 Seven Steps to Improve Your Computer Security http://www.jwnetworkconsulting.com/security/seven-steps-to-improve-your-computer-security http://www.jwnetworkconsulting.com/security/seven-steps-to-improve-your-computer-security#comments Fri, 12 Dec 2008 06:28:03 +0000 Jason http://www.sysadmins.info/?p=146 Most of my clients and the people I meet with are in some way concerned about the security of their computers.  The problem that they have is that they aren’t sure what they should do.  Lets face it, not many people out there love figuring out what the bad guys are doing and how to defend against that.  Folks want to take care of their businesses without spending their day becoming computer experts. They want to be experts in what they do, not what I do.

As many people in my field have noticed, there are a few basic things that can be done but frequently aren’t.  So instead of relying on what I think to say at the spur of the moment, I’ve created a small guide for businesses to check their systems against.  It’s not a definitive list of things that will make you secure, but it will help.  Particularly if someone reads it, finds they are missing something and puts it into place.

So here it is, Seven Steps to Help Protect Your Computers.

Do you have questions about how to use it in your business?  I’m more than happy to discuss it with you and answer any questions you might have.  Use the contact form or give me a call at 801-326-0364.

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