On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 01:54, Daniel Hedlund <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 23:53, Keith Lofstrom <[email protected]> wrote: >> Every once in a while, J. Random Technophile adds something cool to >> my Server Sky wiki. Recently, someone added a PDF attachment. PDFs >> apparently can contain viruses, so I opened this in a locked-down >> account to make sure the content is OK, then uploaded it to an online >> file virus scanner (virustotal.com) . Any other suggestions? > > Most viruses are targeted toward Adobe reader and Windows. I'm not > sure I'd worry too much if you keep your system up to date and are > using a reader such as evince or okular. If you still have your > doubts...
Sorry Keith, I think I misinterpreted what you were asking. Although not explicitly stated, it sounds like you might want to double-check that the file is virus free before redistributing it, or do something to the file to guarantee it is. If you're not interested in converting the file from a PDF to something else and back again, there's a couple other virus scanners I know of you could try: 1. http://www.kaspersky.com/scanforvirus 2. Send the file to yourself with Gmail or another webmail solution that has a built-in virus scanner. When you view the email it should perform a virus scan on the PDF. Cheers, Daniel Hedlund [email protected] _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
