Adobe: No threat from PDF spam

Fatuous Assurance: This borders on the ridiculous:

"PDF is no more able to embed malware on an unsuspecting user's system than any other typical e-mail attachment."

Tell me, is he talking about "typical" .JPG attachments, .DOCs with macros, .EXE, .SCR or .PIF? Does he honestly consider all of these to represent equivalent risk? What kind of dumbo audience does he think he's talking to, anyway?

By design, .PDF can include JavaScript, "open" other files and applications, and can be trusted to start up multimedia operations. I notice he gives no advice on turning these off these risks, as I routinely do.

All you can say is that current .PDF spam does not make use of the malware opportunities provided by .PDF; "no threat" indeed.; Posted by: cquirke Posted on: 08/22/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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