*-CHILLED DELIRIUM-* <sfunp@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us> writes: > > 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. I think this article is uninformed gibberish. The jpeg format has no element of executability, and no internal means of "propagation". As far as I could see this is simply a conventional virus, spread by conventional virus-spreading tools like Micro$oft Outlook Express, that happens to mess up jpeg files. McAfee and their ilk have a large financial interest in keeping the general public uninformed, scared, and happy shelling out money for "protection". Rackets are used by tennis players. Brian Chandler ---------------- geo://Sano.Japan.Planet_3 http://imaginatorium.org/
