Extra protection as opposed to opening it in adobe reader, yes, much likely. Chrome has a sandbox for pdfs as far as I'm aware, they also provide a lot of big bug bounties to people who find any remote execution bugs in Chrome. So, in conclusion, yes, chrome provides relatively more security than other software when opening PDFs.
>At the moment, we haven’t seen use of any 0-days; however, the worm is known to have infected fully-patched Windows 7 systems through the network, which might indicate the presence of a high risk 0-day.
I really want to know what that 0day is, I can't comprehend how hard it would be to find a 0day remote execution on a Windows system
Haha! yeah I just finished reading the kinda-more-informative analysis (http://www.securelist.com/en/blog/208193522/The_Flame_Questi...). Seems very interesting. I wish that they would share the samples so other hobbyists could also see what it is like
Highly unlikely that that will happen, simply because even the smaller virus writers take precaution when buying servers, they usually do it using stolen credit cards that are not hard to acquire. In addition, the it also depends whether the hosting companies are willing to assist people with the investigation.
I'm fed up by these technically lacking stories that don't give you the details but tell you that its "complex". While I realise that the BBC website is aimed towards the general public I think that it would be beneficial to include at least some technical details.
I'm not too sure if it will. Majority of the people who pirate do so simple because they may not use it so often or they do not have sufficient funds to buy it. However, when for example, college students do get a copy of the crack and then they get used to using photoshop, and then when some of them grow up to work for a big firm, the big firm has no problem spending a few thousand on design software.
What I'm trying to say is that, even if they get 10x the sales with the copy of photoshop priced at $100, they will not make as much money as opposed to selling 1/10 copies at $1200.
I completely love it, oh my god! I was looking for something like this to plan out my revision timetable for my A-levels, this seems like the perfect tool to use. Not only that, but it seems like an awesome tool to keep me motivated. I really like that "task completed" section!
God damn it, when I was ~14 years old I had a very popular anime website (~3M+ uniques every month), but I shut the website down because I got bored. God damnit, I wish I knew about flippa back then! I don't even own the domain anymore...