http://news.techwhack.com/6269-pdf-attachment-spam-mails News from the Tech and IT World Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:03:06 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://news.techwhack.com/6269-pdf-attachment-spam-mails#comment-167573 Sarah Tue, 04 Sep 2007 08:28:43 +0000 http://news.techwhack.com/6269/pdf-attachment-spam-mails/#comment-167573 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. 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.

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