That was my point exactly. We all trust pdf files implicitly and open them
without a thought of potential harm to our systems. If pdf's can carry
executeable code its only a matter of time before linux also becomes a victim
of these sort of virii. The fact that right now it seems to be limited to
full versions of acrobat mean its just a matter of time before the reader is
compromised also. If/when the reader is compromised linux will at that time
be vulnerable. Code is code and if vb can be used so could chunks of other
languages or shell scripts.
If anyone has followed some recent happenings in the ebook world you will
know that adobes security is already being deeply questioned as is their
response to the matter(not talking about diemitry). What other pitfalls lurk
in their code?!?
Ronnie
On Wednesday 08 August 2001 11:10, you wrote:
> 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
>
> Stuart Biggerstaff
>
Ronnie
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