quoth Andrew on this day of Our Lord: | | The attached OpenType font file will cause Windows to restart | immediately when the file is opened by the default viewer (fontview). | I doubt anyone would suspect a "harmless" little font file of being | able to cause such a thing to happen! I ran strings over it: OTTO CFF D@ eOS/2^^\ `cmap $head 6hhea $hmtx maxp name post restarter restarter NONE Copyright 2003. All rights reserved.restarterRegular1.000;NONE;restarterOTF 1.000;PS 001.001;Core 1.0.29Please refer to the Copyright section for the font trademark attribution notices. and then entered 'restarter' into Google, which returned information on a trojan called restarter that does just that. Sophos and Symantec have descriptions of somewhat different versions of the trojan. godspeed, Tiina Muukkonen System Administrator, CSE, UNSW -- "When I was seven, my parents moved to Texas. ________ When I was nine, I found them." Steve Wright (__) / \ `\------(oo) ( Squeak!! ) Tiina Muukkonen || (__) --'\________/ tiinamat_private ||w--|| http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~tiinam \|/ \|/
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