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		noondip on March 10, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: “Adobe is aware of a report that CVE-2016-1010 is ... You are depriving yourself of a lot of information by avoiding files based solely on file extension (most academic papers are in PDF format, for example). Avoiding Flash, on the other hand, I completely understand.

cm2187 on March 11, 2016 [–]

I am happy to run some exe on my machine. I would never run an exe I have received by email. Not sure I get your point.

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