How to turn off acrobat association in Java?
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From: Ant on 17 Mar 2010 16:06 "David H. Lipman" wrote: > Often that may determine if Acrobat or Reader is installed, and what version via the COM > class object such as the CLSID Firefox shouldn't know about COM. > Ant may have a better answer. I have Java disabled in Firefox since it's rare that a site requires it for navigation. However, I suspect VG means Javascript. I also have Acrobat set to not display PDFs in a browser (I download them instead) and don't have any plugins installed for Firefox.
From: David H. Lipman on 17 Mar 2010 17:02 From: "Ant" <not(a)home.today> | "David H. Lipman" wrote: >> Often that may determine if Acrobat or Reader is installed, and what version via the >> COM >> class object such as the CLSID | Firefox shouldn't know about COM. >> Ant may have a better answer. | I have Java disabled in Firefox since it's rare that a site requires | it for navigation. However, I suspect VG means Javascript. I also have | Acrobat set to not display PDFs in a browser (I download them instead) | and don't have any plugins installed for Firefox. While FF doesn't use ActiveX, why wouldn't know COM Automation and COM Class objects ? { I'm not a programmer so I really don't know } -- Dave http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp
From: David H. Lipman on 17 Mar 2010 17:04 From: "Virus Guy" <Virus(a)Guy.com> | Roedy Green wrote: >> Instead of using associations, you can launch the acrobat reader >> directly with the file as a parameter. >> See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/exec.html | So if I want to maintain pdf shell file-associations but at the same | time prevent direct malicious launching of acrobat, then would renaming | the acrobat reader executable do the job? | So if I rename acrord32.exe to acrobat32.exe, then any attempt to launch | "acrord32.exe" from java would fail? | (would also mean renaming the file in the registry too) | "David H. Lipman" wrote: >> They aren't always launched via PDF file association. >> Often that may determine if Acrobat or Reader is installed, and >> what version via the COM class object such as the CLSID >> {AC76BA86-1033-F400-7760-000000000004} | I don't have that clsid in my registry. Instead I have this: | {AC76BA86-7AD7-1033-7646-A00000000001} | Or maybe this? | {B801CA65-A1FC-11D0-85AD-444553540000} {AC76BA86-7AD7-1033-7646-A00000000001} Do you have Adobe Reader v6.01 ? {B801CA65-A1FC-11D0-85AD-444553540000} Adobe Reader 4.0 ? -- Dave http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp
From: Ant on 17 Mar 2010 21:23 "David H. Lipman" wrote: > From: "Ant": >| Firefox shouldn't know about COM. > While FF doesn't use ActiveX, why wouldn't know COM Automation and COM Class objects ? > { I'm not a programmer so I really don't know } An ActiveX control is a self-registering COM object. You can read more about it here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/159621/en-us Since FF doesn't do ActiveX I would expect it not to use COM or other MS specific technologies. That would be more work for maintaining the code base which must also be used for non-Windows systems. However, there is a plugin to enable the use of ActiveX, so I'm not sure what's to stop developers using COM in plugins for other things. Interesting question and I don't have a FF Adobe plugin to check.
From: David H. Lipman on 17 Mar 2010 22:36 From: "Ant" <not(a)home.today> | "David H. Lipman" wrote: >> From: "Ant": >>| Firefox shouldn't know about COM. >> While FF doesn't use ActiveX, why wouldn't know COM Automation and COM Class objects ? >> { I'm not a programmer so I really don't know } | An ActiveX control is a self-registering COM object. You can read more | about it here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/159621/en-us | Since FF doesn't do ActiveX I would expect it not to use COM or other | MS specific technologies. That would be more work for maintaining the | code base which must also be used for non-Windows systems. However, | there is a plugin to enable the use of ActiveX, so I'm not sure what's | to stop developers using COM in plugins for other things. Interesting | question and I don't have a FF Adobe plugin to check. OK.... -- Dave http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp
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