At 10:14 PM 6/14/2002 -0400, you wrote: > > 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 > > Luis, Norton2000 checks for viruses in out-going jpeg attachments but I'm not sure if it checks incoming. AZ Maker of Lookaround panoramic camera. http://www.panoramacamera.us or keyword.com lookaround
