URI problem also affects Acrobat Reader

After being notified by heise Security, Skype silently fixed a security problem in the handling of special URLs by releasing an updated version 3.5.0.239. Other programs such as Adobe's Acrobat Reader, the Netscape browser, and the Miranda Instant Messenger still launch arbitrary programs when special URLs containing the % character are clicked on. In doing so, they may allow spyware to be installed on the user's system. The developers of Mozilla have at least temporarily remedied a similar problem in Firefox.

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