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If a PDF has a virus, will viewing it in react-pdf activate it. #1745

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Possibly. I absolutely cannot guarantee it won't. However, PDF.js (Firefox's PDF rendering engine that we also use) architecture is vastly different from Adobe Reader's and I would expect the latter to be an attack vector far more commonly.

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