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Posted by David J. Craig on December 15, 2006, 12:08 pm
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another program to execute it since the extension is wrong for the OS to try
and execute it with the normal mechanisms, but a program that calls
CreateProcess can execute it. Sometimes files that appear as .txt may have
a .txt.exe type double extension to try and fool the user.
> W. Watson wrote:
>> Is it really possible for a virus to appear in one the above file types,
>> or is it that the virus is part of an extended suffix like
>> abc.doc.trouble? That is, it really isn't a doc file at all, but some
>> program other than doc will get launched when opened.
>
> it really is possible for doc files... doc files used by microsoft word
> use the OLE2 file format which is in actually more like a self-contained
> file system with it's own allocation tables, it's own fragmentation
> problems, and of course with both data *and* code... the code is in the
> form of a type of program called a macro... have you not heard of macro
> viruses?
>
> with rtf it's possible that the rtf file is just a mislabeled doc file
> (there are some macro viruses that will save as a doc even if you try to
> save as an rtf)..
>
> txt files generally aren't a problem in and of themselves...
>
> --
> "it's not the right time to be sober
> now the idiots have taken over
> spreading like a social cancer,
> is there an answer?"
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