Email Virus?

[indigotheory]

Hi, I sent an email to a friend a couple of hours ago from my macbook with a .pdf attachment of a 1 page scanned document, and its been deferred, apparently due to "exceeded internet timeout virus"

does this mean, I or she has a virus?

 

[miles01110]

If you're on a Mac, it's almost certainly not you. What kind of computer does your friend have?

 

[indigotheory]

Hi, thanks for the reply,

yeah im running snow leopard

my friend has windows, and i know her email goes through some kind of microsoft exchange server. it must be something to do with that, ive resent it and everything seems fine so far

 

[BlueRevolution]

Sometimes overzealous spam filters will filter perfectly innocuous applications. That's certainly the case if you try to send executables, or archives containing executables, over email. I can see why, but it doesn't necessarily mean that there is anything wrong.

I don't think PDF files can contain viruses, though. There's no executable code inside.

 

[indigotheory]

I thought as much,

damn windows, id never go back, ok cool, thanks for the reply.