Re: OE Distress


If you can be tricked into, or your browser defaults to, opening a pdf,
there's an exploit in Acrobat prior to version 8.

Yes ... but exploits in other software presumably would go just the same if
the files in question were copied over the sneakernet, rather than having
anything to do with the web-ness of it ?

Yeh, but you were asking about drive-by web-based stuff. Thanks to IE
auto-starting other apps, and being leaky itself, there are various
purely web-based exploits.
Typically the main site looks - is - OK but one of the ads in a corner
contains somethign hidden which IE helpfully loads...
Which isn't to imply that other browsers don't have problems, of course.

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