Adobe put Trojan horse in Acrobat.

["Wamsley, James R" <WamslJR () louisville stortek com>]

We recently found an alarming problem with Adobe's pre-release of Acrobat
4.0,  When one of our users downloaded and installed the pre-release,
McAfee, using data definitions 4.0.4017 stated that one file net bus pro.dr
contained a virus and could not be removed.  Of course we investigated and
see NetBus there.  The user opened a problem report with Adobe.  They
acknowledge that NetBus Pro is part of the package, but 'have not been
reported to cause problems with anyone's computer at this time.'

I personally find this absolutely reprehensible that they would purposely
put 'remote administration and spy software' in a package that will be
widely distributed around the world.  That is all any of us need is the have
a lot of users install this, and the nefarious users obtain the whole
package and start whacking desktops whenever they choose.

Comments?


[ Jim Wamsley, Network Engineering                     
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