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I was listening to a security MP3 on this site <http://www.grc.com/sn/SN-134.htm>
What was interesting to hear was what this security expert stated about the acrotray.exe utility that’s installed with CS3
Here’s his comment;
Steve Gibson, and Leo Laporte, Episode 134 for March 6, 2008:
Steve: I did have one little bit of errata that I wanted to share. We got a report from one of our listeners, Brian Dent, who reported that he was really glad that TrueCrypt made him produce an emergency rescue CD.
Leo: Oh, yeah.
It turns out that another Adobe utility – I don’t know what it is with Adobe and track 0. But it turns out that he’s learned that their acrotray.exe utility, which is some sort of something that lives down in the tray of Windows, is also writing into track 0 and wiped out TrueCrypt. He rebooted, and he typed in his password. Nothing happened. And he said he saw his life pass before his eyes. Then he realized, wait a minute, I’ve got that CD. So he booted from the CD. It was able to, of course, restore that track and the boot track, and he was able to get back into Windows. And again, by juggling back and forth a little bit, he figured out what it was that was causing the problem. And so this is two different things now from Adobe relative to, I guess to Macromedia. Or I think Macromedia was the other one. And so it’s something DRMish that Adobe is doing is really causing problems. And he did do some browsing around and confirmed that lots of other people are having the same problem with Adobe’s software and its collision with the TrueCrypt bootloader.
What was interesting to hear was what this security expert stated about the acrotray.exe utility that’s installed with CS3
Here’s his comment;
Steve Gibson, and Leo Laporte, Episode 134 for March 6, 2008:
Steve: I did have one little bit of errata that I wanted to share. We got a report from one of our listeners, Brian Dent, who reported that he was really glad that TrueCrypt made him produce an emergency rescue CD.
Leo: Oh, yeah.
It turns out that another Adobe utility – I don’t know what it is with Adobe and track 0. But it turns out that he’s learned that their acrotray.exe utility, which is some sort of something that lives down in the tray of Windows, is also writing into track 0 and wiped out TrueCrypt. He rebooted, and he typed in his password. Nothing happened. And he said he saw his life pass before his eyes. Then he realized, wait a minute, I’ve got that CD. So he booted from the CD. It was able to, of course, restore that track and the boot track, and he was able to get back into Windows. And again, by juggling back and forth a little bit, he figured out what it was that was causing the problem. And so this is two different things now from Adobe relative to, I guess to Macromedia. Or I think Macromedia was the other one. And so it’s something DRMish that Adobe is doing is really causing problems. And he did do some browsing around and confirmed that lots of other people are having the same problem with Adobe’s software and its collision with the TrueCrypt bootloader.
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