Planxty Songbook 1976.pdf

[s1m0n]

Did someone who's email address I don't recognise just send me an attachment by this name?

If you did, thank you, but please let me know - there's an unpatched Adobe Reader exploit out there in the wild blue internets, so I'm reluctant to download or open a .pdf I wasn't expecting.

[FJohnSharp]

That would be a pretty narrowly targeted attack with that file name. I mean how many people in the world would even know what Planxty is, let alone want to open a file with a Planxty songbook.

[s1m0n]

That would be a pretty narrowly targeted attack with that file name. I mean how many people in the world would even know what Planxty is, let alone want to open a file with a Planxty songbook.

Yeah. The coverage of this exploit does say that it's a targetted attack, although I'm certainly nothing like a "high-ranking" person!

The assaults target a zero-day flaw in Adobe's program, which means there isn't yet any patch available. According to Symantec the attacks currently focus on "high-ranking people within different organizations," and though the company isn't directly confirming the method, the announcement appears to describe an attack that uses a .pdf e-mail attachment. Symantec did say " the simplest way to spread this threat is to send it as an e-mail attachment."

I expect that as a targeted attack using a zero-day, the e-mails in question would be convincing and well-crafted. If the attack is successful, it will install a Trojan onto the victim machine. The malware is capable of giving remote-control access to the attackers, Symantec says, and the end goal may be the theft of corporate documents.

[FJohnSharp]

It would have to be someone who knows you well enough to know your interest in Irish music. This is kind of creepy.

[djm]

But if it turns out to be a valid .pdf I'd like a copy, please.

djm

[Joseph E. Smith]

But if it turns out to be a valid .pdf I'd like a copy, please.

djm

Ooh, ooh, me too, please.

[FJohnSharp]

Hellz yeah.

[mutepointe]

maybe that's the plan of the virus. you end up inundated with pm's of "me too's."

[Denny]

so forward it to someone brave enough to open it!

[Jayhawk]

I want one, too. I'll open it in fox-it reader...If the issue is with adobe, it shouldn't be a problem using another reader unless it, too, has the same problem.

The nature of the pdf does seem too specific for it to be a random virus.

Eric

[dubhlinn]

I can't believe that anybody around here would want the alleged item.

If you don't know every word, note and breath by now..you're in the wrong game.

Slan,
D.

[Lambchop]

Cunning! Very, very cunning!

[s1m0n]

Appears to be genuine.

[buddhu]

I can't believe that anybody around here would want the alleged item.

If you don't know every word, note and breath by now..you're in the wrong game.

Slan,
D.

[FJohnSharp]

I can't believe that anybody around here would want the alleged item.

If you don't know every word, note and breath by now..you're in the wrong game.

Slan,
D.

Yes but when I want my friends to play 'Frost is All Over' just like the Planxty version I need to give them the music. Actually Eileen Ivers plays that version too I recently learned.