[arachne] Re: Adobe swings and misses as PDF abuse worsens | Zero Day | ZDNet.com

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On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 04:39 -0500, L.D. Best wrote:
> Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club!
> 
> Suddenly the "safe" small footprint way to transmit documents is no 
> longer safe. Is anyone really surprised that PDF finally became a target 
> for abuse?
> 
> http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=2690&tag=nl.e589 
> <http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=2690&tag=nl.e589>
> 

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Seems to be an easily solvable problem. 

The problem is solved simply by switching to an open source pdf viewer, 
as recommended in some of the replies to the above blog posts. 

Sam Heywood  
 
 

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