As per Matt's link there has been one virus ("Peachy"). Actually, one
virus embedded in a document which was attached to the PDF, and it was
more of a proof of concept, but there you go.
Darn near every version of Acrobat Reader so far has had buffer overflow
problems, but they've not been exploited by the bad guys. I know about
the buffer overflow problems because I'm the kind of guy that reads the
readme.txt that comes with software updates.
So given this info, it's up to you to decide whether to scan or skip PDF
files. Ask yourself:
How confident are you that a virus won't infect a PDF?
How worried are you about a false positive in a clean PDF?
Are you pinched for CPU time on your mail server?
Is there another way to save CPU time on this box?
Andrew 8)
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Does anyone know of a reason why to scan PDF files?
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