Oct 27 2007
Uhm, Right
“News” from Reuters:
Emails containing malicious PDF files have been putting computers at risk since Friday, Finnish security software firm F-Secure said on Saturday.
“The emails sent in bulk looked like credit card statements, and contained an attachment called ‘report.pdf’,” its chief research officer Mikko Hypponen said in a statement.
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.”
Let’s see, Joe Bob gets a message from a bank he’s never heard of (or one he’s heard of, but doesn’t have an account with), saying that his credit report is attached — and he opens it? How stupid do you have to be to fall for that?
And forget security. I delete email with PDF files out of principle, just because I hate PDF files, and Acrobat even more than PDF files.
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