Is it safe to have a download page?

[chrisranes]

Thanks again for making it look like I know how to make a website--I know very little about it but I still get lots of compliments.

I asked a question in the old forum about aweber and delivering larger pdf reports when someone is opting in to my mailing list.

I have multiple reports that I want to deliver and all of them are too large.

I guess the next best option is to put them up on a "hidden" page on my site somewhere and make them available for download there.

Would doing this make my site vulnerable to hackers or anything like that? I'm a little worried because I've been getting a fairly large number of really strange looking spam comments caught by my akimset plug in.

How would I upload these reports and make them available for download?

I guess I had better do a search for how to remove a published page from the navigation menu unless one of you kind folk could provide me a link to a relevant post. Is it possible to make the download page so people can't just navigate directly to it?