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Subject: Re: OT: New PC virus can infect picture files

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 03:11:15 06/15/02

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On June 15, 2002 at 04:29:28, Terry McCracken wrote:

>
>‘Perrun’ virus poses challenge to anti-virus researchers
>
>http://www.msnbc.com/news/766434.asp?0nm=N1AL

It is more nonsense and FUD than anything else. You can't
get infected via the JPEG files, it only works if
you are _already_ _infected_ with another program.

They're basically saying that once you are already
infected, the virus can use other data-files to send
over data. Du-uh!

I repeat: you cannot get infected by JPEG files alone.

--
GCP



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