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Stock Spam - Now uses FDF attachment types

Email I've received some stock spam that uses the FDF attachment, which I wasn't familiar with.  This PDF based attachment type might need to be added to corporate email attachment blocking lists. 

Stock Spam - Now uses FDF attachment types
http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/archive-082007.html#00001246

Quote: After image spam, PDF spam, DOC and XLS spam we're now seeing FDF spam.  FDF apparently stands for Forms Data Format. This is a form file that's read by Acrobat and other PDF readers. the content of the file - suprise, surprise: stock spam.