Ad-Aware Pro 8.0.2 Anniversary Edition

The new, US$40 Anniversary edition of Ad-Aware Pro, Lavasoft’s antispyware application, is unfortunately nothing to celebrate. Though it brings in an antivirus engine to supplement its antispyware scans, the program missed a large percentage of malicious files–including adware and spyware–on test scans. And using it is no cakewalk, either.

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Adobe Reader 9 and Acrobat 9 zero day exploited in the wild

Yesterday, Adobe confirmed the existence of a critical vulnerability affecting Adobe Reader and Acrobat versions 9.0 and earlier, originally detected by the Shadowserver Foundation last week. The onging targeted attacks have since been confirmed by both, Symantec and McAfee urging users to disable JavaScript in Adobe Reader and Acrobat until Adobe issues a patch [...]