[Mimedefang] Re: Unsafe file types

[WBrown at e1b.org]

mimedefang-bounces at lists.roaringpenguin.com wrote on 11/30/2003 09:25:59 
PM:

> I recall Microsoft Word opening "foo.rtf" (actually a Word Document) as
> a Word document when I last tested it some years ago. While Word
> documents are not technically executables, they can contain all sorts of
> nasty mobile code (macro language), and include various other
> interesting security violations (word documents being able to download
> random URLs off websites behind your back).

RTF(rich text files) can be opened with Micro$oft Turd, but they do not 
have the ability to carry embedded macros the way a .DOC file can.  They 
are far less dangerous.