How to turn off acrobat association in Java?
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From: Ant on 18 Mar 2010 08:25 "Virus Guy" wrote: > I have Firefox (2.0.0.20) [...] Maybe that version is buggy. > I was fooling around with some links at malwaredomainlist.com and one > (or more) of those links, when executed in Firefox, resulted in Acrobat > reader opening and (I guess) trying to render some file. The "save to > file" dialog box did not happen. My Firefox agent string is been set to > OS=XP, Firefox= 3.1.something (I'm running win-98). > > I'm trying to figure out what or how or why acrobat reader was launched > by what-ever I was pointing Firefox at. Until we know which link and can examine what comes back with your particular UA header it's all guesswork. > The pdf file that I posted about in another thread came from my firefox > cache at about the same time that I was messing with those malwardomain > url's. The only PDF files that I've seen in the past that are very > small and have script code in them like that were usually malware. There was no script in the sample you posted.
From: Ant on 18 Mar 2010 08:25
"Virus Guy" wrote: > Ant wrote: >> I suspect VG means Javascript. > > What sub-system is responsible for handling / executing Javascript? DLL(s) supplied with the browser or in the case of IE, with the OS. > Is there anything like a single Javascript "control-panel" - or engine? No. Firefox has some configuration options but IE has more. > Or does every app handle Javascript internally - all by itself? Yes. |