From: Mike '/m' 

On Wed, 22 Feb 2006 15:35:05 -0500, "Geo"  wrote:

>Ok, so basically Acrobat Reader (free version) is just Notepad on steroids.
>It does display formatted documents, great but you can't edit anything. It's
>a glorified file viewer that views only ONE type of file.
>
>So today I was talking to an old friend about the mini systems we used to
>run, the biggest of which had 4 massive 64MB drives on it.
>
>As I'm talking to him I'm patching acrobat reader, that patch being patch
>7.0.7 and it's 40MB (that's FORTY MEG) long.. For a patch for a file viewer?
>
>Somehow, somewhere, things have gone very very wrong..


Acrobat Reader is not jsut a file viewer, it's a file viewer that has the
ability to launch applications based upon the contents of the file beng
viewed.

It's always more difficult to write a file viewer that has built-in exploit ability.

 /m

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