"Unlike most months, what the bulletin administrators should look at first is the Adobe patch when it is released later today," said Jason Miller, data and security team leader at Shavlik Technologies. The hole was discovered in mid-December and is being exploited by attacks in the wild to deliver Trojan horse programs that install backdoor access on computers. However, security experts said a patch for a zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Reader and Acrobat that Adobe Systems released on Tuesday was even more important than the Microsoft bulletin. The only change you have to make inside Foxit is to tick the "Create links from URLs" tickbox under Edit | Preferences | General.According to Microsoft's Exploitability Index, the hole is rated "2" which means "inconsistent exploit code likely" while "exploitation of systems running Windows XP and later operating systems is unlikely." More technical details are available on Microsoft's Security Research and Defense blog. The solution I chose to make URL links in PDFs trigger my Firefox browser reliably was to dump Adobe Reader and install the faster and smaller Foxit Reader ( ).
Note that Mozilla's own useful KB article: suggests you set individual file types to default to FireFox, but I had already had those set anyway. Like contributors here, I found that neither method worked. Various other forums too suggest that it's just a matter of using Start | Set Program Access and Defaults, and choosing "Use default browser" or forcing Firefox to be the default.
It also seems to have been a problem for long time going back to early versions of Mozilla Firefox 1.06. Last year Adobe's own tech note declared it "a rare problem and there is no known solution": and the problems continue in relation to Vista : The fact that URL links from within Adobe Reader always launch Internet Explorer instead of the default browser, say Firefox, seems be a common problem from within the Reader, and from within the Help (Google "Adobe Reader default browser").
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