Well just yesterday we got an alert about an Adobe Reader flaw that is being exploited in the wild.  Adobe came out with an updated version of Adobe Reader on Wednesday of this week.  You want to upgrade to version 8.1.2 now.  These exploits have been found in both banner ads and also spam e-mail attachments.  These dirty rotten criminal hacker scoundrels are attacking this application because it is so widely used.  Most people don’t update their version of the Adobe Reader.

If you are a reader of my blog, you know there are tools out there to check to see that you have your software up to date.  The one I really like is the Shavlik Google gadget.  It runs and checks many of these third party applications and tells you that you have an update.  If you use this Google gadget, run it and patch.  The one thing you can do that will protect you the most is to patch your applications.

Patch and be happy.  Stay safe and have a great weekend!!