I was on a certain torrent site, and was wondering if I could get a virus from downloading a .pdf file. thanks for the help.

 

 

 

 

 

Oh and this isn't a copyrighted file so i'm not breaking any laws O:)

Seeing as I have heard that you can get a virus in a normal image, (Might have to be as an email attachment, I can't remember) I wouldn't be surprised really.

 

 

 

You do know what PDFs are, right?

Things that you open with Adobe. They're E-Books.

Probably possible but unlikely. I have never had a virus of any kind from .pdf files.

No. It's vector graphics/images/text (Which is also vector of course)/can also contain 3d objects in a digital document. It can be and is used for ebooks though.

 

 

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF

No. It's vector graphics/images/text (Which is also vector of course)/can also contain 3d objects in a digital document. It can be and is used for ebooks though.

 

 

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF

 

 

 

Yes, a friend of mine did it :cry:

possible but unlikely.

 

you should always run a scan on anything you download from torrents anyway, so that should tell you.

It is very likely that a virus can be packaged in an Acrobat document. You can embed almost anything into a PDF. Although it is speculated that people using Acrobat Reader only and not Writer are immune as the code used to exploit embedded documents is not present in Acrobat reader.

 

 

 

But those hacking type are clever folk, and nothing is 100% immune :(.

It's possible to write malicious code into ANY file.

 

 

 

However that code is only dangerous if you system executes it. Adobe reader wont run any code it isn't built for so you will most likely get just an error message when trying to read the document.

 

 

 

 

 

I have never heard of a virus hiding inside a .PDF it's mainly just applications that you need to watch out for.