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Prevent "accidental" use

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
30/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Domain
desktop, security

Research direction

Start by reviewing the Flatpak launch path and the issue's proposed first-launch warning using a simple launch script and Zenity. Define the warning behavior, including the “Don't warn me again” choice, and confirm that it appears before Acrobat opens without disrupting normal launches.

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Description

Since this version of Acrobat is over 10 years old and has access to some user data there should be some way to prevent "accidental" use, if you get what I mean.
A less tech savvy person could open their software store and install this without noticing that it's an ancient insecure version and open a malicious PDF in it, exploits like that exist. A possible way of preventing a case like this would be a popup to warn people on first launch (possibly implemented using a simple launch script and something like Zenity) with a "Don't warn me again" box.

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