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indigotheory

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May 1, 2009
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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?
 
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
 
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.
 
I thought as much,

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