Release 4.63.2 beta

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Thu Aug 16 11:16:20 IST 2007


That's why you can edit the files I supply! Don't like something? Then 
change it.

Mark Nienberg wrote:
> Julian Field wrote:
>
>> 2 Added *.fdf to the list of dangerous filenames. Opening a .fdf file 
>> can
>>   cause the loading of any file on the internet into Adobe Acrobat.
>
> There are perfectly legitimate reasons to send email messages with fdf 
> files attached.  If you use the "browser-based review" feature of 
> Acrobat that allows multiple users to review and comment on a pdf 
> file, then the automatically generated email invitations will have an 
> fdf file attached.  The user clicks on the fdf file to open the 
> document in Acrobat. The document is usually on a webdav server.  Each 
> user's comments are then sent to and saved on the webdav server by the 
> Acrobat program.
>
> Blocking fdf files will effectively disable one of the key features of 
> Acrobat.
>
> Mark
>

Jules

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