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From: Brett Glass (brettlariat.org)
Date: Tue Aug 07 2001 - 23:23:17 CDT

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    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