Re: Opentype font file causes Windows to restart.

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

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