This is currently disallowed by you system administrator.' I used the Adobe Help search to get to this page: Adobe Acrobat X Standard * Attachments, which mentioned a whitelist and a blacklist for file formats that can and cannot be opened, respectively.

As everyone else has described, I get the message 'This file is set to be launched by the PDF File. vbs script files in Notepad that outputs various message boxes when certain bookmarks in the PDF are clicked on. I am having a similar issue as everyone above. I am wondering if they will be comming out with an alternate way that is Adobe approved to allow users to open specific files, again lets say excel files to certain sheets and certain cells in those sheets Does this functionality come with the newest version of Adobe acrobat? The only workaround that systems administrators can now give their users are eitherī) use the registry hack, which ends up opening up a seriously large attack vector, that is above most users heads.Ĭ) don't use vbs scripts to open different files, and just link directly to a certain fileĪdobe knows that users have been using vbs files to open lets say excel files to certain sheets, on certain cells in that sheet, and by fixing their security hole ended up creating alot of problems for their users. This does still open a social engineering security vector, but that should not be governed by Adobe, that should be a risk that the business should be allowed to take if they would like to take that risk.įrom what i can see there are a bunch of different registry keys that can be used to customize adobe, but i cannot see any that would allow for the above comment. But Adobe should have a way for corporations using their product to allow vbs, exe, etc run from within their companies, and dissallow running those types of files if they are external to their companies domain. I've noticed that this change was implemented, i realize that this was done to avoid issues with hackers, script kiddies, social engeneering etc. That will not be allowed because it was blocked to prevent attacks as described in Ankit Jain above. This is currently disallowed by you system administ

Subject: Adobe Reader This file is set to be launched by the PDF File. The solution will be to install Adobe Reader 8.2 on all the computers and block updates. People have been chasing me to tell me to undo whatever I did to make their textbooks stop working, but I didn't do anything and I can't easily help them. (2) Put in an error message that blames the system administrator for the loss of functionality. Admittedly the functionality was a security hole, but people were using it (the PDF textbooks for the International Baccalaureate program being one example) and there is no option to override the 'fix'. (1) Removed functionality that people used to build and sell products.

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