Re: Is RTF in Word still prone to viruses?

From: JT (spam_at_dcplus.dyndns.info)
Date: 04/04/04 

Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2004 10:08:55 GMT

On Sun, 04 Apr 2004 09:13:25 +0100, Piotr Makley <pmakley@mail.com> wrote:

>(1) If I use MS Word to create an RTF document then would I avoid
>including any viruses, worms and malicious stuff in my documents?
>
Can't be depended on for that

>(2) If I open an RTF document using MS Word then could any viruses,
>macros or other malicious stuff in the document run on my PC?

The .rtf extension just tells the OS that it is an office document. Word
will ignore the extension once the file is passed to Word to open. An
infected file renamed with the .rtf extension would infect you just as fast
as a .doc. The extension is no real indicator of file contents, and is no
guarentee of how the file will be processed.

JT