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Acrobat Family of Products Security Feature User Guide External Content and Document Security Allowing and Blocking Specific Web Sites 111 8.7.2 Allowing and Blocking Specific Web Sites The Acrobat family of products maintain a white and black list of URLs called the Trust List. Users can specify whether or not URL access is allowed on a global or per-URL basis. For URLs that aren't explicitly trusted or blocked (they are not on the white or black list), a warning appears whenever a document tries to access the Internet (Figure 91). When you check Remember my action for this site, the site is added to your URL white or black list. Figure 90 Blocked URL alert Figure 91 External connection warning To configure Internet resource access on a per-URL basis, add specific Web sites to the black and white lists: 1. Choose Edit > Preferences (Windows) or Acrobat (or Adobe Reader) > Preferences (Macintosh). 2. Select Trust Manager in the Categories panel. 3. Choose Change Settings in the Internet Access... panel. 4. Choose Let me specify a list of allowed and blocked web sites. 5. Configure the black and white lists:  Add a URL to the URL fields and choose Allow or Block.  Choose a URL already in My Web Sites panel and choose Delete. 6. Select an option from the Default behavior for web sites that are not in the above list:  Always ask: You will be prompted to allow or block access for URLs not in the Trust List.  Allow access: URLs not in the Trust List will always be accessible.  Block access: URLs not in the Trust List will never be accessible. 7. Choose OK.

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Acrobat Family of Products
External Content and Document Security
Security Feature User Guide
Allowing and Blocking Specific Web Sites
111
8.7.2
Allowing and Blocking Specific Web Sites
The Acrobat family of products maintain a white and black list of URLs called the
Trust List
. Users can
specify whether or not URL access is allowed on a global or per-URL basis. For URLs that aren’t explicitly
trusted or blocked (they are not on the white or black list), a warning appears whenever a document tries
to access the Internet (
Figure 91
). When you check
Remember my action for this site
, the site is added to
your URL white or black list.
Figure 90
Blocked URL alert
Figure 91
External connection warning
To configure Internet resource access on a per-URL basis, add specific Web sites to the black and white lists:
1.
Choose
Edit > Preferences
(Windows) or
Acrobat (or Adobe Reader) > Preferences
(Macintosh).
2.
Select Trust Manager in the Categories panel.
3.
Choose
Change Settings
in the
Internet Access...
panel.
4.
Choose
Let me specify a list of allowed and blocked web sites
.
5.
Configure the black and white lists:
Add a URL to the URL fields and choose
Allow
or
Block
.
Choose a URL already in My Web Sites panel and choose
Delete
.
6.
Select an option from the
Default behavior for web sites that are not in the above list
:
Always ask
: You will be prompted to allow or block access for URLs not in the Trust List.
Allow access
: URLs not in the Trust List will always be accessible.
Block access
: URLs not in the Trust List will never be accessible.
7.
Choose
OK
.