At 09:44 AM 8/7/2001, Richard M. Smith wrote: >Hello, > >This is an interesting development. Zulu, a virus writer from South >America, appears to have discovered that Adobe PDF files can be used to >carry computer viruses. Richard (and everyone): What this means is that virus scanners will now need to "reach inside" PDFs to scan encapsulated files. But what -- as I'm sure our Russian friend Dmitri would ask -- if the PDF is encrypted? Wouldn't the virus checker have to defeat the encryption to see the encapsulated file? And would it be an illegal "circumvention" mechanism if it did? --Brett Glass
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