[clamav-users] PUA.Pdf.Trojan.EmbeddedJS-1 and PUA.Win.Trojan.EmbeddedPDF-1

[Steve Basford]

On Thu, March 31, 2016 7:56 pm, Paul Kosinski wrote:
> I disable Javascript in our PDF viewer. PostScript (which underlies
> PDF) is a Turing-complete executable language, and even has a mechanism
> to read and write files, so it could cause some trouble on its own.

Good idea!

For windows users, http://www.sumatrapdfreader.org/free-pdf-reader.html
doesn't use JavaScript at all, even better ;)

Cheers,

Steve
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