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[–] Anamana@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Really? A virus on ebooks? Damn

[–] JoeKrogan@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes on PDFs in this case. It is designed to exploit the PDF reader when you open it. Though less common today it's still an avenue of attack to watch out for. It depends on the reader too but why take a chance if something is detected

[–] spaceduck@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] JoeKrogan@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I have not come across infected epubs myself but it is possible see https://security.stackexchange.com/posts/176225/revisions for some background.