Virus in Fonts?

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Hi,

I tried to find info about this topic, but with no succes. Sorry if is a
well known fact.

Q: Can fonts (especially TrueType) contain viruses (executable code)? , ...
or is there any known trojan, exploit or any other security risk related
using Fonts in Windows XP platform?

thx for answers
 
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Hi,

I tried to find info about this topic, but with no succes. Sorry if is a
well known fact.

Q: Can fonts (especially TrueType) contain viruses (executable code)? , ...
or is there any known trojan, exploit or any other security risk related
using Fonts in Windows XP platform?

thx for answers
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it is always a possiblity some one created on in a pdf called peachy.
would depend on what it exacuted I would figure.

even a ini could in theory aI siuppose contain a virus within
 
nota chance said:
it is always a possiblity some one created on in a pdf called peachy.
would depend on what it exacuted I would figure.

even a ini could in theory aI siuppose contain a virus within
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r.t. scan is a virus that could change the characterstrings. But it only
manipulates the characters on screen. When you then save the characters,
they are garbled. But it's easy to complaint than to get rid of this virus i
suppose (better typing on another computer ?)

Wim
 
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