From: Ross Bamford <rossrt@...>
Date: 2006-02-02T10:32:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Strange posting about ebooks

On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 07:23 +0900, Austin Ziegler wrote:
> 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.

Ahh, my bad. I saw this thread:

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/08/08/1327204&mode=thread

but missed the part about it only affecting the full Acrobat program. 
(Not that I cared much anyway, I don't even have a Windows machine, let
alone Adobe Anything.)

Thanks for setting me straight.

-- 
Ross Bamford - rosco@roscopeco.REMOVE.co.uk