Patch Tuesday, June 2025 Edition – Krebs on Security

Patch Tuesday, June 2025 Edition – Krebs on Security

Got annoyed at #AcrobatReader now having an "AI Assistent" button together with suggestions when entering search queries and tried to find a way to disable it. Well, at least on Windows it's possible using a registry change: in the following key
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Adobe\Adobe Acrobat\DC\FeatureLockDown\ (at least on my system it already existed) add a new DWord value bEnableGentech with value 0 and restart the reader.
Don't know if there is a similar way for other platforms... 😔
No more AI Assistant button 🥰

...damnit, #AcrobatReader is _such_ a piece of crap nowadays.

It's been declining for years, constantly triggering "out of memory" errors when I opened up multiple PDFs at the same time. But I've reached my limit when it crashed multiple times when I tried to search a very simple three-page PDF - while displaying an " #AI Assistant" bar that I didn't ask for and cannot seem to switch off.

I've now installed SumatraPDF . #Adobe is not worth the aggravation.

Zwei-Faktor-Authentifizierung an der #Qualitätshochschule: Eine Token-Liste als nicht-valides PDF, das nach dem letzten #AcrobatReader-Update dann blöderweise so aussieht.

#WirKönnenAllesAusserComputerdingsbums #Neuland #Sachsen

@tudresden

#MonPetitPlaisirDuJour : aider une amie a :
- comprendre qu'ouvrir un #pdf en pj d'un mail avec #onedrive ça place le pdf sur un autre appareil que le sien
- saisir la différence entre appareil, système (OS) et application
- confirmer qu'on ne sait pas trop ce qu'#AcrobatReader fait avec son fichier
- envisager qu'il y a des alternatives
- l'intérêt qu'un logiciel privateur a et qu'un #logiciellibre n'a pas, de collecter ses données
- installer #fdroid sur son #android puis installer #mupdf
1/2

Ich möchte gerne #PDF Dateien auf meinem Mobiltelefon
* Anzeigen
* Teilen als Datei
* Drucken

Vorlesen wäre noch ein Bonus.

Hat jemand eine APP Empfehlung für #Android?
Mein #AcrobatReader hat mittlerweile das Unbenutzbarkeitslevel überschritten.

@Natanox the problem with #Windows and #macOS is the "#Adobe #AcrobatReader Syndrome":

  • They think #Enshittification is a fact if life and as inevitable as death when in fact it's not!
Adobe Reader Is LITERALLY Hitler.

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#Adobe #Acrobat Readerくんへ。更新するのに時間がかかるのは65535歩譲って許せるんだけど、更新が終わってないのにアップデートが終わるまで数分お待ちくださいのダイアログを消すのはやめてね。ころすぞ #AcrobatReader

#Ssoftware is shit, and getting shitter. It takes a lot for me to be surprised, amused, or curious about the increasingly ridiculous ways in which it goes wrong. But there is one mystery I can't wrap my head around:

Why does the save location in #AcrobatReader always default to "C:\Windows\System32", a folder in which (I hope) it doesn't have the elevated permissions required to save anything?