A suspicious warning came from a security expert, Petko Petkov, regarding a security flaw in Adobe PDF format.
This follows his previous bugs discoveries, that you have probably already read about, in the Second Life client, Firebug JavaScript debugger, Windows Media Player and Firefox's QuickTime plug-in.
Petko Petkov recommends us to avoid PDF files, especially those sent by unknown users.
This until a patch will be released.

I will cite the words used in his blog: "Adobe Acrobat/Reader PDF documents can be used to compromise your Windows box. Completely!!! Invisibly and unwillingly!!! All it takes is to open a PDF document or stumble across a page which embeds one."
According to him, the exploit affects Windows 2003 and Windows XP SP2, while Vista and Linux can’t be affected.
Acrobat Reader’s vulnerable versions are 7, 8.0 and 8.1, but other programs such as Foxit Reader can be affected, though less, because they show a confirmation dialog which has to be accepted in order for the exploit to start running malicious code on the machine.

We don’t know for sure how accurate this information is, but Petkov wrote that he informed Adobe about the flaw and that he will publish the code which demonstrates how the attack works, after a patch is provided.
According to him, Adobe has confirmed the problem, "You have to take my word for it," he said.

EASEUS has released a new version for its Data Recovery Wizard, the all-in-one data recovery software which supports disk restoration, Undelete and Unformat processes for different file systems such as FAT, FAT16, VFAT, FAT32, NTFS and NTFS5, in the Windows Operating Systems: Windows 95, 98, Me, NT, 2000, XP and 2003 Server.


The program can support alternate data streams, sparse files and Unicode filenames.
DeletedRecovery , FormatRecovery, AdvancedRecovery and RawRecovery are some of the powerful functions which allow viewing and restoring the deleted files and folders, or data recovering from formatted, reformatted, corrupted and damaged NTFS and FAT hard drives and partitions.

The new features that come with version 3.3.4 are:
• File Type list added in the search result;
• Can select the exact drive or folder to search in DeletedRecovery;
• ResumeRecovery feature added, to allow users to save the search result in a file and at a later time allows the option to resume the search result;
• RawRecovery moved to the main interface;
• Preview of recovered WORD and EXCEL files;
• Upgrade function added.

The Data Recovery Wizard's price is of 69.95$ and the demo version is available here.

Gran Paradiso is not a game, and it's not a movie either. If this doesn't ring any bell, I am sure that only my grandmother didn't hear about Firefox yet, but I am also convinced she's not going to read this article anyway, so let's see what's new in Mozilla's garden...

As you have probably figured out already, this is just another version released to the public only for testing purposes, so don't think about replacing your everyday browser with Gran Paradiso yet, at least wait for the first Beta to come out! Anyway, if you want to take the chances, you should know that Windows, Linux and Mac OS versions of Firefox 3 Alpha 8 became available today.

While Internet Explorer's market share keeps shrinking slowly, but surely, Mozilla's fox gets more and more attention. If Microsoft doesn't strike back, it is possible for Internet Explorer 7 to follow Netscape Navigator's fate, but I hope that doesn't happen. I am not an Internet Explorer fan, but we have at least a dozen of serious Web browsers on the market at this time, and competition was always good for the end user.

If you're wondering about the new stuff included in Firefox 3 Alpha 8, then I'm very pleased to see that Mozilla (finally!!) added pause/resume for downloads, as well as a new way to assign various file types and protocols to external applications and Web services.For more details, and to download the program, of course, please go here and don't forget - this release is for testing purposes only, so be careful with it!