Foxit user alert

[Dai]

Foxit Software has issued an update to make it easier for users to spot PDF files that may contain malicious content. Also, Apple has pushed out new versions of QuickTime and iTunes that correct nearly two dozen security problems in those programs.

Last month, researcher Didier Stevens said he’d discovered that he could embed an executable file — such as a malicious program — inside of a PDF file. Worse, Stevens found that PDF readers from Adobe Systems and Foxit contained a feature that would run those embedded files upon request, in some cases without even warning the user.


http://www.krebsonsecurity.com/2010/...icktimeitunes/

[dilli-theclaw]

....and since I put the new iTunes on I've not been able to sync my iPhones calender properly and it took me well over eight hours to get iTunes 9.1 to even SEE my iPhone.

Unless people actually NEED the new iTunes I'd steer well clear.

[Dude111]

I have Adobe Version 3 and i am notified if the app launches an application..

This PDF opens CALC.EXE (I had to edit the PDF file to point to where i have CALC.EXE (I dont have it in the location specified in this file)) and when i ran it,i got the alert....

http://seclabs.org/fred/docs/sstic09...aunch/calc.pdf

Interesting......