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Re:Malware masked as textbooks and essays by eyegor on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @08:43PM (#22744474)
And this is why allowing scripts/embedded executable files in document formats has always been a bad idea. There's always someone who will mess it up. Luckily there are some tools for sanitizing documents, such as dangerzone for pdf [0]. But I wish there were standardized docx/pptx/odf/odp with zero scripting capabilities.

[0] https://github.com/firstlookmedia/dangerzone/blob/master/REA...

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Re:Malware masked as textbooks and essays by blue1 on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @05:34AM (#22747041)
If I understand the description correctly, dangerzone completely rasterizes the pdf. This seems pretty drastic. Isn't there some tool that just checks the PDF or removes the scripting, without having to install a commercial antivirus software?
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