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[johno]

"New Virus Can Infect Picture Files"

PLEASE!!! tell me we are in sweeps again.

The author waits until the very end to state "an infected JPG file cannot infect another computer on its own"

Gheez..

Go McAfee's AVERT page and you learn that its a standard virus.

With a standard infection vector of a executable that looks for trigger data in a picture file. No different then one that looks for specific files, dates, URLs, etc. It is just looking in a data file for the trigger then just the presence of a specific type of file.

The only thing different is that the trigger data contains the code for what action to take.


http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_99522.htm

Comments

Re:

[sinboy.livejournal.com]

What? You exepct people to figger out how to use a non GUI based email client?

People are stupid. That's how viruses get spread in the first place.

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

I know how to use text-based email, I just don't like it.

That said, I've gotten one virus though email, ages ago, and haven't since then. I have a virus checker on all my mail, and it scans my disk weekly, as well. It's not hard to avoid viruses with windows, if you know what to do.

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[sinboy.livejournal.com]

Oh, I don't use a text based emailer either. I know how to. I can figure out how to use pretty much all of them. It's people who can't figure them out that bug me. People who open file types they don't recognize bug me.

People who can't figure out text based email programs and operate on networks that will cost millions if they crash while using software lik Outlook express really bug me.

The fact that so many of them are still employed bugs me even more.

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

My former employers required Outlook.

Re:

[johno.livejournal.com]

Major difference, you've made the active choice.

Many folks just take what they're given with no thought.