Not so far...but the ability of PDFs and Acrobat to do something like this 
means we can't look at PDFs as innocuous.  I mean most people have felt 
nearly as safe opening a PDF to see what it is as a text file.

At 10:13 AM 8/8/01 -0500, Jim Conner wrote:
>The way I read this is that it needs Acrobat full it will not work with
>Acrobat Reader.  Since Acrobat full isn't ported to Linux, we are immune.
>Also, it will need MS Outlook and a way to run a vbs script.  Only Windows
>systems that have Acrobat full and MS Outlook installed will be vulnerable.
>This doesn't seem to be a new linux virus.
>
>Jim



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