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Jun. 14th, 2002 02:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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
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
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Date: 2002-06-14 03:46 pm (UTC)"Hi, Newbie. We're going to assume you're as dumb as rock and make assumptions on how you want to work. Autorun an exe, no problem. Hide extension information from you, no problem. Let random email run scripts, programs, modify system params, no problem."
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Date: 2002-06-15 12:25 am (UTC)But I could be wrong...I haven't set it up in years...
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Date: 2002-06-15 12:30 am (UTC)Java, javascript and vbscript all do currently autorun. Yech!