Author: Terry McCracken
Date: 19:57:43 06/15/02
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On June 15, 2002 at 22:55:23, Terry McCracken wrote: >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 Perrun is known as a proof-of-concept virus, and does not cause damage. Gullotto said he fears that virus writers may use Perrun as a template to create a more destructive version.
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