According to what I just read,
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5095366,00.html?chkpt=zdnnp1tp02
it only affects the full version, not Acrobat Reader.
But it's interesting that "Using PDF bypasses the filters in newer
versions of Outlook that ordinarily screen out VBScript files".
Regards,
Tim
Ronnie Gauthier wrote:
> I think so, AFAIK, ms products run pdf's without challenge. I have acrobat 5
> and it opens fully when I click a pdf file. I use pdf's quite a bit and it
> concerns me that if this gets more work and wider spread that anyone with
> acrobat will be extremely vulnerable to a system attack. Also that its
> possible that with more work that even on the linux side someone could get
> code to execute when the plugin is run to open the pdf file.
>
> Ronnie
>
> On Tuesday 07 August 2001 20:56, you wrote:
>
>>it uses the PDF extension only so that file association could
>>get the script executed...right?
>>
>>Ronnie Gauthier wrote:
>>
>>>not sure if this is real but it sounds like it is.
>>>
>>>http://www.coderz.net/zulu/outlook.pdfworm.txt
>>>
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