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Old 25th Oct 07, 06:40 AM
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Adobe PDF exploits continue after patch
*Source: TG Daily (http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/34513/108/)*
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San Jose (CA) - Just hours after Adobe fixed a vulnerability in its PDF viewing applications, users became warned of a continuing security threat.

Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader became hot programs for spammers after a glitch was discovered to exploit the program's "mailto" command. Hackers used this in connection with a malicious PDF code to send out bulk e-mails with dangerous PDF attachments.

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