I can only imagine that a lot of Hackers would like to exploit this too - sort
of a payback to Adobe for getting that Russian
programmer/hacker Dmitry Sklyarov arrested. We'll have to watch how that case
progresses.
The GOOD thing is it only activates with the FULL version of Adobe Acrobat (NOT
Acrobat Reader). That doesn't have nearly the
installed base as say Outlook/Outlook Express - and that narrows the pool of
those who get the virus (and spread it) significantly.
ERIC
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Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 2:32 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.
> >
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