[Free-sklyarov-uk] adobe software limitations

[Julian T. J. Midgley]

On Fri, 27 Jul 2001, Anton Chterenlikht wrote:

> Will this be of any use for getting more attention
> from security specialists?
> Why these are only antivirus programs?
> Can it be the case that Adobe security acts like a
> worm?
> (I'm absolutely ignorent in this)

It sounds more like Adobe's program interacts poorly with some of the
usual acivities of anti-virus programs.  Certainly the eBook Reader
doesn't do anything remotely virus or worm like.

It's well known that virus detection tools can produce false positives.
Also, since Adobe are keen to prevent you pulling the plain text copy of
your book out of the Reader, it seems they have implemented measures to
prevent random programs poking around in it's allocated memory, and
elements of some anti-virus software might well do this.

All in all, I doubt there's any useful ammunition here.

All the best,

Julian

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