On Thu, 9 Aug 2001, "Rich Cloutier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I don't remember with whom, but we were discussing whether this was possible
> a while back. I of course was wrong. Here is the proof:
>
> http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/vbspeachypdfa.html
Yes, but it requires the full Acrobat composer, not just acroread (a
pdf viewer only). Also, it is based on Visual Basic somehow, so I'd guess
that would not affect Acrobat on Unix.
I don't remember the discussion and what was claimed, but I just wanted
to point out it does not appear to attack Unix or acroread.
BTW, I apologize if I've shown this before, but here is a postscript
file .ps that not terribly long ago (several years?) could be used to
attack ghostscript/ghostview on Linux boxes:
%!PS-
(%pipe%xterm -e yes Wheeeeeeeeeee!) (r) file
quit
but we're all safe now... (is there a smiley that looks like a guy with
his fingers crossed???)
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