Free Fonts and Malware

I have downloaded several free fonts from dafont.com and I was curious, is it possible to get a virus or malware from a font file? If it is possible, how likely is it? These are .tff files just to let you know.

Well, you can end up getting malware by downloading almost anything. Next time you want to download something, check it out with WOT, Web of Trust, which is a Firefox Add-on; maybe Safari now, as well.
This is the page for dafont.com and the comments, not included below, seem positive.
There's also Google Safe Browsing Diagnostic. Put the following in the URL bar and the name of the site after the =
http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=
Also, next time, just google around for dafont.com, or whatever, to see what's being said about it.
That said, however, some free, badly designed fonts may end up causing problems other than malware.

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