Fake User-Agent on PDF -- WARNING!

João Gouveia jgouveia at gmail.com
Sat Jun 30 23:53:25 IST 2007


On 6/30/07, Glenn Steen <glenn.steen at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 01/07/07, Hugo van der Kooij <hvdkooij at vanderkooij.org> wrote:
> > On Sat, 30 Jun 2007, Julian Field wrote:
> >
> > > Turns out this is not an illegal version number at all, it's perfectly
> > > valid.
> > > So I strongly advise against using any rule based on this version number :-(
> > >
> > > bother :(
> >
> > It just is an odd combination of a version with a timestamp 20070509 and a
> > release date online of 2007-05-30. It is a sure thing to put someone off
> > like that.
> >
> > Common guys. No messing with my birthday.
> You're quite an advanced admin/user for a newborn....:-D.
>
> Have you done any form  of count on the occurance of this suspect
> combo? You mentioned not having counted/checked them all IIRC.

Carefull with that rule, doesn't look that fake. Just search in google
(or googlegroups) for "Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (Windows/20070509)".
There's a lot of ham mail there..

> Cheers
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