Outlook Express blocks Adobe PDF files
Posted by aco on 08 November 2002 - 10:08 · 12 comments & 1856 views
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#1 Posted by smek on 08 Nov 2002 - 10:18
- my outlook express has been doing this for a while! versin 6 does it
i fink its meant to try and stop files that could contain a virus!! and cos pdf aint from msoft they are more likely to contain a virus ........ according to msof
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#2 Posted by Tom Servo on 08 Nov 2002 - 11:05
- XDocs is supposed to be a form generator for collecting statistics and such. Not a PDF replacement. At least how it looks atm.
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#3 Posted by werejag on 08 Nov 2002 - 11:32
- xdocs wtf that bs. microsoft is doing again stoping people from using other standards
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#3.1 Posted by Tom Servo on 08 Nov 2002 - 11:40
- [quote]XDocs," a code name for the newest member of the Microsoft Office family, streamlines the process of gathering information by enabling teams and organizations to easily create and work with rich, dynamic forms. The information collected can be integrated with a broad range of business processes because XDocs supports any customer-defined XML schema and integrates with XML Web services. As a result, XDocs helps to connect information workers directly to organizational information and gives them the ability to act on it, which leads to greater business impact.[/quote] Doesn't quite sound like a PDF replacement.
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#4 Posted by Gumboot on 08 Nov 2002 - 11:35
- Does anyone know if PDF files can contain viruses?
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#4.1 Posted by edgrale on 08 Nov 2002 - 12:25
- I'm not so sure, I did a google search and foun this one http://lwn.net/2001/0809/a/adobe-pdf-followup.php3 A bit more digging and I found this one: http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/vbs.peachypdf@mm.html "[i]It functions only in the full version of [b]Adobe Acrobat[/b], not in the Acrobat Reader. [/i]"
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#5 Posted by Malidios on 08 Nov 2002 - 12:24
- there was an article some months ago, cant remember where i saw it, about someone who had figured out how to make a virus in .pdf files, guess thats why they want to block them..
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#6 Posted by tmaxxtigger on 08 Nov 2002 - 12:44
- I think you can add scripting to a PDF, and we all know how secure scripting can be...
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#7 Posted by Blaise on 08 Nov 2002 - 13:56
- There was a story back in August about a virus called "Peachy" that came embedded in an attachment to a .pdf. using VBS scripting. [url=http://news.com.com/2100-1001-271267.html?legacy=cnet]Cnet Story[/url]
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#8 Posted by creamhackered on 08 Nov 2002 - 14:09
- nice to see another dodgy thing by M$
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#9 Posted by dkg_ctc on 08 Nov 2002 - 17:07
- This story would be a lot more factual (and a lot less FUD) if it pointed out that PDF's aren't the only document files which are blocked. In fact, I couldn't help but notice that the article didn't mention that Outlook Express blocks access to it's own document format. That's right, MS blocks access to MS Word files. But nevermind that...I'm sure this is an attempt to overthrow Adobe. Of course.
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#10 Posted by Turnipator on 09 Nov 2002 - 05:46
- bahhh
if it didnt block word docs as well I would consider this news....
Last edited by 18910 on 09 Nov 2002 - 06:04
But a side effect of the "feature" is that Outlook Express defaults to deny access to PDF files, prompting some to suspect there's an ulterior motive along the line somewhere.
Microsoft has had its beady eye on Adobe for quite a while, and is understandably miffed that Adobe and the PDF format is so widely accepted.
It has its own XDOCS specification but it will take a while for that to be successful, if it ever is.
The anti-viral feature can be turned off by going to Tools > Options and (under the Security tab) unchecking "Do not allow attachments to be saved or opened that could potentially be a virus".
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