AW: .fdf spam

[Julian Field]

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Eek! I think this is headed for the dangerous filenames list.

R. Ehle (MailScanner Mailinglist) wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>  
>
> .fdf-Files normally are form data of pdf forms and might be dangerous. 
> If you fill in a form, which has been designed in Acrobat, you can 
> save the data as file (creates a .fdf file). Once you open the .fdf 
> file, it will automatically load the form (a pdf file) too, wherever 
> it is located at (i.e. from the internet)
>
>  
>
> Regards,
>
> Roland
>
>  
>
> *Von:* mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info 
> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] *Im Auftrag von 
> *Iad Scoot
> *Gesendet:* Freitag, 10. August 2007 20:06
> *An:* MailScanner discussion
> *Betreff:* Re: .fdf spam
>
>  
>
> I think that .fdf files are generated from the Adobe SDK - basically a 
> dynamically-created pdf file.
>
> On 8/10/07, *Gareth* <list-mailscanner at linguaphone.com 
> <mailto:list-mailscanner at linguaphone.com>> wrote:
>
> Today I got my first .fdf spam. It looks basically like a pdf file and
> acrobat opens it as usual but because of the different extension I 
> believe
> the PDFInfo plugin did not scan it. I have mailed the plugin author to let
> him know.
>
> I doubt this method will last long. I had never heard of a .fdf file 
> before
> so I suspect it is something a lot of people will add to the file 
> extensions
> block list.
>
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