Workday insists my Pages PDF has virus

I also encountered this issue trying to submit my resume to two different employers using Workday. Following dylan_landry's suggestion, I deleted one section at a time and retried the upload. I eventually found that the Header style was the culprit (though it was not in a text box as in a previous answer).

To get around the issue, I created a new style based on the default Body style (I called it WorkdaySafeHeader), and changed it to match the style I wanted. Then I replaced all uses of Header with WorkdaySafeHeader, and deleted the Header style. I'm now able to upload my Pages-generated .pdf resume just fine.

I had to export my pages doc to a pages'09 and then to pdf and that seemed to do the trick.

I did as you suggested PeterFoxFlick and converted to Pages09 and then PDF it worked perfectly. I didn't need to change any headers or parts of my document. Many thanks.

Workday is nuts. First, there are no viruses on the Mac, and it is impossible for Pages to export a PDF that contains even adware/malware. Pages has no support for JavaScript as it is a word processing application. Stop using Workday, that is the simplest, least expensive solution to this nonsense.

There are viruses written for macOS, quite a large number each year, although nowhere as many as the huge number for Windows.

None seem to get any traction however.

@emeryl1:

Details of the successful style definition might be useful to tannit (and to others experiencing the same difficulty).

Regards,

Barry

OMG it really helps!!!! thanks!!

Having same problem applying for jobs lately and all say my pdf resume has a virus.

If you are equating the escalating number of adware/malware discovered on the Mac each year with the wrong term "viruses," then you are correct. However, the only people finding viruses on Macs are in the research labs, or naively running anti-virus products on the Mac that false report that they have found a "virus" in a legitimate operating system file. Consequently, it is no surprise that Malwarebytes for Mac is the number one recommended anti-malware remedy in the support communities.

Two requirements to be a virus:

1. Will automatically spread to other machines on the network, or via a user's list of contacts.
2. It must be self-replicating, or it isn't a virus. It will modify or completely replace files on the infected system, which now have the behavior of the original virus.

A good read on this subject.

This issue happens to me only when I fill a text box with a header styled paragraph.

Upload as a Word Document. Problem Solved.

I found a bit of an easier solution... I converted the PDF to a JPG and then back to a PDF... it looks like there is a slight drop in quality but it only took a minute.