Luis, According to Symnatec, the makers of Norton Anti-Virus, that is a factual report. It also states that if you make sure your virus data file for your antivirus program is updated, it should catch this virus. Stephen > There's a little article out today from AP on an announcement >from McAfee Security about a "Perrun" virus, which has a component >that infects Jpegs. The worry is not about this particular virus, >because it needs an "extractor" component also present in the >victim's hard drive. But they theorize that before long, other >viruses will be designed to be totally coded into Jpegs, and >like this one, invisible when you pull the image up. > > --- Luis
