Antivirus: October 2007 Archives
Symantec's blog entry about the Adobe PDF exploits reported that the attacks were targeted attacks on a handful of specific organizations. Their writeup on the trojan.pidief.a still has a low treat assessment
Wild Level: Low
Number of Infections: 0 - 49
Number of Sites: 0 - 2
Geographical Distribution: Low
It looks to me like these malicious pdfs are being spammed more widely right now. We've received files detected as exploit-pdf.shell.
Subject Lines / File names
Personal Credit Points / report.pdf
Personal Financial Statement / report.pdf
Statement of retained earnings / dept.2007.10.26.3689762.pdf
Ars Technica reports that Google is now giving Postini protection to its enterprise customers who use its hosted email services. That's great, but I dont really trust them with my data let alone my customers. For smaller businesses wth less in house expertise, I can see that as a good play.
