PDF Attachments - Dangerous?

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Posted by: Bavarian29, July 16th, 2007, 5:59pm

I am suddenly getting quite a few emails with pdf attachments. I never opened any of them and wonder if this could be a new way of Phishing or planting a virus or spam ware.

Posted by: Ray, July 18th, 2007, 9:33am; Reply: 1

   Some are just spam messages.  Some are viruses.
   Any type of file can be embedded in a pdf file, so it is possible that they contain a virus.  There is a virus out there which is a pdf attachment.
   By all means, do not open a pdf attachment unless you are 100% sure what it is.

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