Before you open a PDF attachment...

GTS · Sep 23, 2008

Before you open a PDF attachment from an anonymous ET poster:

http://www.trustedsource.org/blog/153/Rise-Of-The-PDF-Exploits.

The Portable Document Format (PDF) is one of the file formats of choice commonly used in todayâs enterprises, since itâs widely deployed across different operating systems. But on a down-side this format has also known vulnerabilites which are exploited in the wild.

I see a fair amount of Excel, Word and PDF attachments being posted or linked to here from time to time. I hope no one is reading them from their trading computer...

Bernard111 · Sep 30, 2008

It seems Acrobat Reader or full application 8.1.2 should handle these vulnerabilities.

Tums · Sep 30, 2008

A "friend" sent me some PDF articles on trading.
My Avast detected trojans inside!
Trash bin they go... they won't get a chance to reach my Adobe.

Derrick1983 · Oct 5, 2008

Quote from GTS:

Before you open a PDF attachment from an anonymous ET poster:

http://www.trustedsource.org/blog/153/Rise-Of-The-PDF-Exploits.

I see a fair amount of Excel, Word and PDF attachments being posted or linked to here from time to time. I hope no one is reading them from their trading computer... [/B]

So, what should we do? How do we read the attachments? Many of them are useful information which we need.

bbqbbq · Oct 5, 2008

i think dont click on them, right click on them and save to disk, scan with virusscanner, then read if clean

GTS · Oct 5, 2008

Quote from bbqbbq:

i think dont click on them, right click on them and save to disk, scan with virusscanner, then read if clean

Most virus scanners will scan for malware any time a file is accessed so the extra steps you are doing (manually saving to disk and then scanning) should not be necessary.

Bernard111 · Oct 6, 2008

Quote from Tums:

A "friend" sent me some PDF articles on trading.
My Avast detected trojans inside!
Trash bin they go... they won't get a chance to reach my Adobe.

Which Acrobat version are you using?

Derrick1983 · Oct 6, 2008

Thanks for the replies, shall follow them.

Please tell which is a good anti-virus software?