Security Secrets the Bad Guys Don’t Want You to Know
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PDFs to execute JavaScript, they would have thwarted most of those attacks.
To disable JavaScript in Reader, click Edit, Preferences, JavaScript and then uncheck the Enable Acrobat JavaScript box to the right of the window.
The downside of all these defensive tactics is inconvenience. With scripting disabled in your browser, many animations, movies, and dynamic Web pages simply won’t work–and many users get frustrated by the never-ending cycle of opening a Web page, seeing that it doesn’t work properly, and then choosing to allow scripting on that page.
The same holds true for Reader, where PDF-based forms may not submit properly if you’ve disabled JavaScript; nevertheless, many people don’t mind simply turning on Reader’s JavaScript whenever they need it.
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