I guess it had to happen. A security hole was discovered in Adobe Acrobat Reader that could potentially "allow an attacker to execute malicious code on a user's system via a PDF file distributed via e-mail." The bug effects version 6.0.2, and possibly earlier versions of the Reader.
The problem can be avoided by installing an updated version of Adobe Reader, and it just so happens that version 7.0 is available. Among the enhancements in Adobe Reader 7.0 (note that it's no longer called "Adobe Acrobat Reader") are:
- faster loading time, something I'm sure we'll all appreciate.
- ability to fill in interactive forms
- commenting capability can be offered on documents created in Adobe Acrobat 7.0
- improved searching
If you'd rather stick with version 6, then at least update to 6.0.3 to avoid any unpleasantness.
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