Did someone who’s email address I don’t recognise just send me an attachment by this name?
If you did, thank you, but please let me know - there’s an unpatched Adobe Reader exploit out there in the wild blue internets, so I’m reluctant to download or open a .pdf I wasn’t expecting.
That would be a pretty narrowly targeted attack with that file name. I mean how many people in the world would even know what Planxty is, let alone want to open a file with a Planxty songbook.
Yeah. The coverage of this exploit does say that it’s a targetted attack, although I’m certainly nothing like a “high-ranking” person!
The assaults target a zero-day flaw in Adobe’s program, which means there isn’t yet any patch available. According to Symantec the attacks currently focus on “high-ranking people within different organizations,” and though the company isn’t directly confirming the method, the announcement appears to describe an attack that uses a .pdf e-mail attachment. Symantec did say " the simplest way to spread this threat is to send it as an e-mail attachment."
I expect that as a targeted attack using a zero-day, the e-mails in question would be convincing and well-crafted. If the attack is successful, it will install a Trojan onto the victim machine. The malware is capable of giving remote-control access to the attackers, Symantec says, and the end goal may be the theft of corporate documents.
It would have to be someone who knows you well enough to know your interest in Irish music. This is kind of creepy.
But if it turns out to be a valid .pdf I’d like a copy, please. 
djm
Ooh, ooh, me too, please.
Hellz yeah.
maybe that’s the plan of the virus. you end up inundated with pm’s of “me too’s.”
so forward it to someone brave enough to open it! 
I want one, too. I’ll open it in fox-it reader…If the issue is with adobe, it shouldn’t be a problem using another reader unless it, too, has the same problem.
The nature of the pdf does seem too specific for it to be a random virus.
Eric
I can’t believe that anybody around here would want the alleged item.
If you don’t know every word, note and breath by now..you’re in the wrong game.
Slan,
D. 
Cunning! Very, very cunning!
Appears to be genuine.
Yes but when I want my friends to play ‘Frost is All Over’ just like the Planxty version I need to give them the music. Actually Eileen Ivers plays that version too I recently learned.
So what was the verdict? I want it too! Only if it’s legal to share it, of course, which it most likely is not. 
It’s been out of print for 35 years. Who’s to say?
Still anxiously awaiting my copy.
djm
If it’s a real pdf, I’d sure like a copy too, please.
If you email it to me, I’ll open it up in a linux virtual machine sandbox and see what it really is.
–James
It’s been out of print for 35 years. Who’s to say?
I bought it in 1977 and managed to locate it again in the attic when it was mentioned here a few years ago.
As Dubh said: if you haven’t figured out what’s in it by now, the book isn’t going to save you. Poor, at least awkward, notations of tunes and a number of song with melody line. That’s all there’s to it.
Much more interesting is a little hardcover, nicely illustrated book with songs from Andy Irivine’s repertoire that was printed in 1988 in Germany which I swiped off e-bay a few months ago for a fiver or so (it was part of a batch of three books that cost €12 in all, nobody else put in a bid).
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Any chance I could get a copy of the Planxty Songbook .PDF? Im arranging music for guitar ensemble and would love to do a Planxty set. The book would help.