Acrobat-7.0 and spyware

Rick Miles <[email protected]>
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It seems that the Adobe Acrobat-7.0 is much more than just a pdf reader. 
Here's a link to an article that claims it comes with spyware onboard:
http://lwn.net/Articles/129729/
There's probably more than one way to prevent outbound transmission from the 
spyware but here's one that was posted with the article on the linuxsa list:
http://justlinux.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=140801/


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Rick Miles

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