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Posted by foghollow on July 11, 2007, 5:15 am
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gregpatterson@-invalid-.com says...
> I have had several unknown persons send PDF attachments with email
> lately. I have a policy, if I dont recognise the name of the sender,
> the email is deleted. however on occasion I will email a business and
> will get a reply from an address not containing the business name but
> from someone that works there. In that case, if I am expecting some
> reply from a business, I will read the text portion of emails that
> might be from such a source, and on several occasions what looked to
> be spam was actually such a reply. However, unless I know the person,
> no attachments are ever opened. Anyhow, I keep getting these PDF
> files lately. My guess is that they are just advertising, but I wont
> open them, and just delete them. My question is whether a PDF can
> contain a virus or spyware? I know that .exe files, screen savers,
> .zip and other compressed files can, and I have heard of a few
> occasions where pictures can contain at least some sort of bad code.
> I never heard anything about PDF's one way or the other.
>
> Thanks for replies
>
> Greg
>
Type "pdf virus" into Google and check the first hit.
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