Email Virus?

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  1. indigotheory, Jan 7, 2010

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    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?
     
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  2. miles01110, Jan 7, 2010

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    If you're on a Mac, it's almost certainly not you. What kind of computer does your friend have?
     
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  3. indigotheory, Jan 7, 2010

    indigotheory thread starter macrumors regular

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    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
     
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  4. BlueRevolution, Jan 7, 2010

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    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.
     
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  5. indigotheory, Jan 7, 2010

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    I thought as much,

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