It it spread through the FULL version of Acrobat. If any of you are like
me, and too cheap to buy the full version and only have the reader, there is
nothing to worry about.
Ron N. - Dalton, GA
90 SHO
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Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 3:32 PM
Subject: New Virus Spreads using Acrobat Files
> Normally I don't pass along virii spam. This came from Prof David Farber's
> IP list. Farber was a chief technologist at the FCC last year while on
> sabbatical from U. Penn. Probably one of the few who can actually claim to
> have "invented" the Internet (ARPA.net).
>
> It is also confirmed at Norton/Symantec here:
> http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/vbs.peachypdf@mm.html
>
> Scary if virus' can get passed by PDF files.
>
> Matt Murray
>
> mattm@optonline.net
>
> >Subject: New Virus Spreads using Acrobat Files
> >
> >Wednesday, August 8, 2001
> >NEW VIRUS SPREADS USING ACROBAT FILES
> >
> >A VIRUS THAT infects PDF (Portable Document Format)
> >files, used by Adobe Systems' Acrobat software, was
> >identified Tuesday, according to two security organizations.
> >
> >For Full Story:
>
>http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/01/08/08/010808hnacr.xml?0808alert
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