Experts are recommending that users disable JavaScript in Adobe Reader and Acrobat until a patch is available for a recently-disclosed vulnerability.

“Shadowserver, a volunteer-run group that tracks vulnerabilities, was the first to urge users to switch off JavaScript,” writes Computerworld’s Gregg Keizer. “‘We have said it before and we will say it again: Disable JavaScript,’ the group said in a Monday post to its blog.”

“Turning off JavaScript may be the only defense against attack until Adobe patches the problem,” Keizer writes. “And it may be nearly a month before that happens: Adobe’s next regularly-scheduled security updates for Reader/Acrobat are to ship Jan. 12, 2010.”

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