The Adobe Acrobat Pro XI Welcome Screen must be disabled.

From Adobe Acrobat Pro XI Security Technical Implementation Guide

Associated with: CCI-000381

SV-89987r1_rule The Adobe Acrobat Pro XI Welcome Screen must be disabled.

Vulnerability discussion

The Adobe Welcome screen can be distracting. It provides marketing material and also has online links to the Adobe quick tips website, tutorials, blogs, and community forums.When the Adobe Welcome screen is disabled, the Welcome screen will not be populated on application startup.

Check content

Verify the following registry configuration: Note: The Key Name "cWelcomeScreen" is not created by default in the Acrobat Pro XI install and must be created. Using the Registry Editor, navigate to the following: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Adobe\Adobe Acrobat\11.0\FeatureLockDown\cWelcomeScreen Value Name: bShowWelcomeScreen Type: REG_DWORD Value: 0 If the value for bShowWelcomeScreen is not set to “0” and Type is not configured to REG_DWORD or does not exist, this is a finding.

Fix text

Configure the following registry value: Note: The Key Name "cWelcomeScreen" is not created by default in the Acrobat Pro XI install and must be created. Registry Hive: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE Registry Path: \Software\Policies\Adobe\Adobe Acrobat\11.0\FeatureLockDown\cWelcomeScreen Value Name: bShowWelcomeScreen Type: REG_DWORD Value: 0

Pro Tips

Lavender hyperlinks in small type off to the right (of CSS class id, if you view the page source) point to globally unique URIs for each document and item. Copy the link location and paste anywhere you need to talk unambiguously about these things.

You can obtain data about documents and items in other formats. Simply provide an HTTP header Accept: text/turtle or Accept: application/rdf+xml.