Adobe is planning to ship an update a week from today that fixes a critical vulnerability in its free and widely used PDF Reader program. Criminal hackers are starting to step up attempts to exploit the flaw and install malicious software via poisoned PDFs. The SANS Internet Storm Center warns that it is beginning to get submissions of malicious PDFs from experts in the field. There is an easy way to mitigate the threat until Adobe patches the flaw: Disable Javascript. If that tweak somehow creates a problem, you can always undo it.”]
Source: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2010/01/security-tweaks-for-adobe-reader/