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[JiF]KellysHero
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I've been getting a bunch of new spam that consists of pdf files to download. Obviously I'm not downloading them, but any idea what's in them?
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I've been getting those too. Probably just an ad for some "placebo" :lol: to make your manhood manhoodlier :shock: .
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A while back when they first started I checked out a few of them and they just contained ads. I had not seen any with viruses in them, but I have not looked at them lately. I just delete them.
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Thought I recently read somewhere that there's a security hole in Flash that could let bad people do bad things to your PC. Since Adobe (PDF) owns Macromedia (Flash) now, I wonder if these are somehow related...
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We've been getting a lot of people call about this issue.

Does anyone know if Symantec (*shiver*), McAfee or anyone else posted an advisory about this?

EDIT: I guess it's a general new method,
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/refere ... y_2007.pdf
Check that out if you interested in some statistics and trends.
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