BleepingComputer.com: Malware via Legitimate Sites

When my machine became infected last week, I suspected that it came through a legitimate site, and that it exploited Adobe. According to the following article, it looks like my hunch was correct:

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/10/gawker/

yep. I got hit by one back in July. Posted to a local papers comments section before they knew enough to lock it down. But it made me go through all my puters and update the reader bho's and flash blockers and all my old versions of acrobat.

i've been pretty lucky with prevention so far on win7 with microsoft security essentials x64...
anyone know if it checks websites in addition to files when doing its lookup? might be useful for these cases

I don’t exactly what just happened but about an hour ago I looked at Drudge and there was a link about a story where NASA was going to debunk the 2012 myth. Clicking this brought me to Breitbart and suddenly Adobe acrobat starts to open. This seemed weird.. McAfee alerted that NetMeeting chat wanted access to the internet , which I blocked.
I closed everything but Firefox was hung up. When I would click the Firefox Icon I got a box saying Firefox was running. Closed this box with task manager. Did an MBAM scanned that turned up nothing. Did a restart. Firefox and everything else seems Ok.
Could this be the Adobe vulnerability others have mentioned or was I just paranoid?
Regards
Nawtheasta.
P.S. Where is the best safe place to go to update Adobe?? Is there a link in BP?

The current adobe reader has a "check for updates" in the help menu. I don't remember seeing it in older versions.

Secunia vulnerability scanner pointed me to a lot of updates.

http://secunia.com/vulnerability_scanning/

Thanks Ken
I found the download link here on BP ( Resources / Must have software) . Did the download last night. Still don't know if I tripped up a legitimate application and panicked because it did not look right or if I really dodged a bullet.
Anyway the computer seems ok.
Best Regards
Nawtheasta
P.S. Thanks, I will check out Secunia

Nawtheasta, when I go to a lot of legit sites my firewall notifies me that Adobe is trying to open, so I would not worry about that one. Net Meeting trying to access the web seems more weird than Adobe opening.

Hi Stang777
This was the first time I have noticed Adobe start to open when I clicked a link to Breitbart in Drudge. Firewall did not alert about it. It just started to open. I have never used NetMeeting so it did not really know what was going on but suspected it could be bad.
I just did a Google search for Breitbart Malware. One of the results was an article from May of this year by Errata Security that mentioned a SQL injection vulnerability ( I don’t have a clue what this means) in Breitbart. The article states that this means that hackers have probably compromised this site.
I always assumed that sites like Drudge would be safe but I guess you never know for sure.
Best Regards
Nawtheasta