Rtf

Undesirable Mail

Thursday, Warm and cloudy.

“Open me! I am a payment order! I am important, I swear!”, - some RTF-file was yelling. I wasn’t expecting any bills so this slyboots did not maim my poor little laptop. Phew ! Lucky me! But since this was a social engineering attack (not very crafty but still), someone less concerned with his or her safety could have opened it and cause him- or herself a lot of trouble. What I am trying to say (very inarticulately ) is that simply opening a small RTF document could result in absolute disaster for your machine! In this post I am telling the story how exactly does it happen…