still dodging an important detail
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| Author | Content |
|---|---|
| tuxchick Mar 31, 2009 11:06 AM EDT |
What operating systems and applications are involved? |
| Bob_Robertson Mar 31, 2009 12:06 PM EDT |
It's sad that "we" all know that if it had anything OTHER than MSWin, that would have been in the headline and lead sentence of most of the paragraphs. By their silence, Windows is loudly proclaimed. |
| TPuffin Mar 31, 2009 1:46 PM EDT |
The article explicitly mentions Outlook Express in one case: "One monk reported that he was looking at his screen when his Outlook Express program launched on its own and began sending out e-mails with infected attachments." Also mentions infecting .doc and .pdf files that were passing through a mail server. |
| Bob_Robertson Mar 31, 2009 4:14 PM EDT |
> Also mentions infecting .doc and .pdf files that were passing through a mail server. Ok, infected PDF is not a nice thought. |
| Sander_Marechal Mar 31, 2009 4:42 PM EDT |
I bet you 10-to-1 that the infected PDF in question is only dangerous when using Adobe Acrobat Reader on Windows. |
| ColonelPanik Mar 31, 2009 4:45 PM EDT |
What about TOR??? Should I stop using it? |
| tuxchick Mar 31, 2009 5:15 PM EDT |
And I bet it's not a real PDF, but a .exe.pdf, because windows is too stupid to identify real file types, and is easily fooled by bogus extensions. |
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