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(Unverified)Mar 6th 2009 4:24PM

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To be fair, you'd first have to actually download an infected PDF to your local machine, and it doesn't appear that this crucial step has been automated in any fashion. It's bad (which I'd have said about Acrobat anyway) but its viability as a "useful" exploit is questionable at best. Basically... if you can get somebody to download a malicious attachment or file, there are probably easier ways to infect their machine than this.

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