From: Ellen K. 

I really find it distressing that there are people in the world who feel
their job in life is to destroy, incapacitate or invade the space of other
people they don't even know.  Virus writers and taggers (graffiti writers)
have a lot in common that way.

On Fri, 26 May 2006 23:34:43 -0700, "Rich"  wrote in message
:

>   Any, yes any, file or file format could be the source of a virus.  While
some like PDF support scripting directly and can be dangerous as a
programming environment, that isn't necessary.  What can happen with any
file, and has already happened with jpeg as Rich pointed out, is that the
applications or libraries that process these files can have bugs that are
exploitable to allow code to run.
>
>Rich
>  "Ellen K."  wrote in message
news:m51f72dd3lr9bn3hcneaqqbfqkfol76rqo{at}4ax.com...
>  :(
>
>  I suppose the next thing will be a JPG with a virus.   :(
>
>  On Fri, 26 May 2006 06:22:35 -0400, "Geo"
 wrote in
>  message :
>
>  >Oh yeah. I posted a pdf here a while back that messed with folks a bit. I
>  >was trying to explain to folks here that they need to turn off the
>  >javascript feature. I think the pdf is still in binaries.
>  >
>  >There was a bug in pdf reader where if you turned off javascript the stupid
>  >thing would remind you it was off and offer to turn it on every time you
>  >started up the stupid reader. Adobe finally fixed it in version 707.
>  >
>  >Geo.
>  >
>  >"Ellen K"  wrote in message
>  >news:2081e9.b9b68b{at}harborwebs.com...
>  >> Hotmail refused to download a PDF attached to an email I
received on the
>  >> grounds that it had a virus.  Can a PDF really have a virus?
>  >

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