Adobe states that user has no risk from PDF attachment spam mails
SPAM August 17th, 2007
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Adobe states that user has no risk from PDF attachment spam mails
There is new kind of spam mail hitting the user’s inbox around the world. These new spam mails come with PDF file attachments containing the spammer’s message.
However, Adobe has said that the users have no reasons to worry from these new kind of mails containing PDF files.
Erick Lee, a security engineer at Adobe said in a statement that “PDF is no more able to embed malware on an unsuspecting user’s system than any other typical e-mail attachment.”
He added: “Although a nuisance, we have not verified an incident where PDF spam became a security issue. Users can be assured that PDF is still the de facto standard for more secure and dependable electronic information exchange.”
Adobe added that they are now working with spam-filter companies to help prevent PDF spam from “getting through to inboxes” by implementing their PDF Ifilter technology.
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It’s good that Adobe went ahead and cleared this up for all users who were unaware of this. Although the PDFs themselves do not pose a threat, the high rate of PDF spam being received hogs a company’s bandwidth, increasing costs and reducing network performance. So it’s important that users are aware that this is actually spam, and network admins should update their spam tool to ensure such mails are blocked, ideally at server level. I’ve recently ran across a free white paper which talks about this particular subject: http://www.gfi.com/whitepapers/attachment-spam.pdf - it’s a pretty good read for further insight on this type of spam.