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[News] [Rival] Microsoft's Negligence Leads to Attack on Many PCs, SPAM

  • Subject: [News] [Rival] Microsoft's Negligence Leads to Attack on Many PCs, SPAM
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 01:30:13 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
PDF files used to attack computers: security firm

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| When such PDF files are viewed on vulnerable machines, they start downloading 
| software from servers in Malaysia or Sweden, which are now being cleaned, he 
| said. "There will be more such attacks."  
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071027/wr_nm/computers_virus_dc


Yesterday:

Microsoft finally admits fault for PDF attacks

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| There we were thinking that Adobe was at fault because its Acrobat reader had 
| a vulnerability that exposed users to bad PDF files filled with malwares sent 
| in spam when all along it was yet another vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. 
| Microsoft has belatedly admitted that it's to blame and is working on a fix 
| but for many it may be too late as spam with dodgy PDF files is hitting 
| mailboxes by tens of thousands.     
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/15053/1023/


Related:

New PDF Zero-Day Vulnerability

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| The British security researcher who has disclosed two critical flaws in 
| popular media files in the past week said Thursday that a zero-day 
| vulnerability in Adobe Inc.'s pervasive PDF files could be exploited to 
| snatch control of Windows XP systems.   
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,137469-page,1/article.html

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