From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2006-02-02T07:23:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Strange posting about ebooks

On 01/02/06, Ross Bamford <rosco@roscopeco.remove.co.uk> wrote:
[...]
> I just deleted them - as well as the copyright issues, I gather that
> PDFs could be vulnerable to viruses...?

You gather mostly wrong. PDFs themselves cannot contain executable code
that can affect the operating system, even with the Acrobat Javascript
capabilities.

PDFs *can*, however, contain QuickTime, JPEG, or other media files that
could possibly have bugs in operating-system or viewer presentation
code.

-austin
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