What the RTF? Mac and Windows users at risk from boobytrapped documents

JMH · May 9, 2012

In the mid-1990s, the emergence of Word macro viruses - capable of infecting both Windows PCs and Apple Macs via Word documents - it was common practice to recommend users avoid sharing .DOC files and use Rich Text Format (.RTF) files instead.
The reasoning was that Rich Text Format didn't support the macro language that Microsoft had embedded inside .DOC files, and so it was a much safer way to share information in the office.

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What the RTF? Mac and Windows users at risk from boobytrapped documents

JMH

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