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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 03:54 pm (UTC)"In its current form, an infected JPG file cannot infect another computer on its own. But Gullotto said there's no reason a virus writer couldn't make the picture itself able to infect other computers."
How? Given that the program needs the EXTRK.EXE to do anything, where does this Gullotto person expect it to come from? Not the .jpg file, right? So from where?
Stupid razzamatazzing frazzle razzlers