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Re: New Virus Spreads using Acrobat Files

To: Matt Murray <mattm@optonline.net>
Subject: Re: New Virus Spreads using Acrobat Files
From: Pete Holsberg <pjh@mccc.edu>
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 18:14:52 -0400 (EDT)
On Wed, 8 Aug 2001, Matt Murray wrote:

> Normally I don't pass along virii spam. This came from
> Prof David Farber's IP list. Farber was a chief
> technologist at the FCC last year while on sabbatical
> from U. Penn. Probably one of the few who can actually
> claim to have "invented" the Internet (ARPA.net).
> 
> It is also confirmed at Norton/Symantec here:
> http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/vbs.peachypdf@mm.html
> 
> Scary if virus' can get passed by PDF files.

Literally, the worm is imbedded in the PDF file; it is
spread by -- ta daaaaah!! -- OUTLOOK (again) via the
Address Book.

Pete

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