01-05-2007, 10:52 AM
Quote:Security experts are warning of a vulnerability in Acrobat Reader that lets a cyber attacker add malicious code to Web content, using a Web site or e-mail message that links to a PDF on a trusted site. In addition to linking to the PDF document, the attacker could add JavaScript that executes when a user clicks on the link and the document is opened in the PDF reader...
Virtually any Web site hosting PDF (portable document format) files is vulnerable to attack, according to researchers from Symantec and VeriSign's iDefense Intelligence...
The flaw appears to target Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6.0 Web browser and earlier versions, and Mozilla's Firefox browser...
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