Re: Revealing Errors: How We Can Use Errors to Advocate for Software Freedom and Openness

["Kristian Erik Hermansen" <user=152@nabble.blu.org>]

 Acroread itself is a major vulnerability :-). However, I don't think 
you are experiencing a security issue.  And I don't understand why 
your company's IT department doesn't utilize the builtin windows 
software sync tools... 



On 6/19/08, Jerry Feldman <[hidden email]> wrote: 
> An interesting Windows Xp security issue that I have been having on my 
> work laptop. Last night, I logged off Windows because Wednesday nights 
> corporate likes to perform maintenance on systems. In any case, when I 
> came in this morning, it had not logged me off, it was hanging on 
> acroread. Apparently whenever you access a PDF through a browser, 
> acroread.exe remains in the process table.  It is this acroread process 
> that prevents the logout. It's a pain for me, because I quickly log 
> out, and then switch my KVM to my Linux workstation. 
> 
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> Jerry Feldman <[hidden email]> 
> Boston Linux and Unix 
> PGP key id: 537C5846 
> PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB  CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846 
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