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Originally Posted by crich70
How about the possibility that someone has attached a virus to an "ebook" file that is being resold. I don't know if it's possible but I imagine someone somewhere is trying to work out if it is and if it should turn out that it is exactly how to do it.
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Is this just a general "what if someone tries to give me a virus" question?
It wouldn't affect me, since the virus would be written for Windows, not linux.
A bunch of people would double-click on a file that has the ebook icon, and accidentally run a program instead. Very sad, but hardly anything new.
That would be a virus
masquerading as an ebook. In order to
embed a virus in an ebook, you'd have to find some security flaw to exploit in the ereader program -- one that gives you access to the OS.
Any reputable source for used ebooks would probably be checking for the watermark, by comparing the book to a master copy. They'd notice weird resources hiding out in the EPUB zip.