Adobe put Trojan horse in Acrobat.

From: Bob Zoller (bobat_private)
Date: Tue Apr 06 1999 - 16:13:03 PDT

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Bob Zoller
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Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1999 07:41:06 -0600
From: "Wamsley, James R" <WamslJRat_private>
To: "'firewall-wizardsat_private'" <firewall-wizardsat_private>,
     "'ntbugtraqat_private'"
<ntbugtraqat_private>
Cc: "Samos, Randy B." <samosat_private>
Subject: Adobe put Trojan horse in Acrobat.

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?


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