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We get almost daily emails from false Apple Support, they're really easy to spot. Besides the poor english/spanish and obvious non-legit email origin, they have in common an attached .pdf file. I am not aware of dangers of opening a pdf file either on computers or phones. What am I missing here? 0-0 "OP is a troll" - Flashlightboy, 12/18/20 | ||
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Don't open the files! When you open them you run the risk of having a virus installed on your computer. That virus can then use your e-mail software to send itself to everyone on your contact list. "It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts." Sherlock Holmes | |||
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Embedded macros. | |||
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Adobe Acrobat is nearly as much a cesspool of vulnerabilities as is Flash, that's what. Do not ever open them. (Better not to have Acrobat installed in the first place.) "America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe "If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher | |||
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That's about it. Acrobat would always have an update every other day at least. I found out Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome opens pdf files easy enough. "It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946. | |||
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Well, thank you all. Wouldn't dream of opening or saving these files anywhere and have instructed the spousal unit to get rid of them ASAP. Always been SOP since the first such email showed up, we are quite cautios and the wife knows that in doubt, she should ask me or nuke it without hesitation. All this crap is unsollicited to begin with. I was unaware of the macros inside them. Good to know. Flash and Java are our usual suspects, adding A. Reader to our list. 0-0 "OP is a troll" - Flashlightboy, 12/18/20 | |||
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