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A critical security vulnerability has been discovered recently with Adobe Reader 9 and Acrobat 9 and earlier versions, which Adobe states, “would cause the application to crash and could potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system.” The vulnerabilities were first reported in February and affects Adobe Reader and Acrobat versions 7 and 8 as well. It is highly recommended that users of Adobe Reader 9 and Adobe Acrobat 9 update to Reader 9.1 and Acrobat 9.1. Updates that address this security risk are also available for Adobe Reader and Acrobat versions 7 and 8. Please refer to Adobe Security Advisory APSB09-04 for more information as well as download links for the software updates.
A cookie is a small data file that a remote website will place on your computer in order to remember you and your settings (session state) when revisiting at a future point in time. A common example of this would be a cookie placed by an email web page so that when you close the page and later return your login session will automatically be restored without having to re-enter your username and password, or if you were on a shopping site and placed some items in your shopping cart and then left, upon returning to the page your shopping cart would be restored.