OT: Acrobat Reader needs plugin?

[Mike McCarty]

Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-09-04 at 20:13 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
> 
>>I have some PDFs which Acrobat claims needs the "file open" plugin.
>>Does anyone know what this is, what it does, and why Acrobat Reader
>>wants me to get it?
> 
> 
> Coincidentally, the Numerical Recipes Web page I referred to in another
> current thread requires that very plug-in.
> 
> http://www.nr.com/plugin/plugin_install.html

Not a coincidence :-)

And, tcpdump showed attempts to look up the website being done.
They failed. I had inadvertently ;-> pulled the DSL out of the
modem before trying to open the file. Using other than Acrobat
resulted in "this file is encrypted, please enter the password".
Also, a hidden directory ~/.fileopen with NumericalRecipes got
installed, along with another binary file. Apparently, someone
is trying to track opens to those files.

Mike
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