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

Author: Terry McCracken

Date: 19:55:23 06/15/02

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On June 15, 2002 at 06:11:15, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>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
I never said you could. I posted an article, that's all.

Take it for what says, not what you think I'm saying.

Du-uh!

Terry



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