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Symantec confirms zero-day Acrobat, Reader attack
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Posted by Donster on: 2009-12-15 15:59:45 304
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By Elinor Mills @ CNET News
Symantec on Tuesday confirmed a vulnerability in Adobe Acrobat and Reader and said it was being exploited by a Trojan hidden in e-mail attachments.
The malicious Adobe Acrobat PDF file is distributed via an e-mail attachment that "drops and executes when opened on a fully patched system with either Adobe Acrobat or Reader installed," Symantec said in a statement.
Symantec identified the file as Trojan Pidief.H, which targets Windows 98, 95, XP, Windows Me, Vista, NT, 2000 and Server 2003.
The rate of infection is extremely limited and the risk assessment level is very low, according to Symantec.
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