gregstar05 Posted July 22, 2004 Share Posted July 22, 2004 hello. can u get viruses in images, such as JPEG, GIF, PNG etc?...just wondering Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VoodooX Posted July 22, 2004 Share Posted July 22, 2004 I've scanned a ghost image file and found no viruses...but when I burned the image to a laptop and started it up, the virus appeared. It was the virus that would shut down your machine after 60 seconds or so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhavalhirdhav Posted July 22, 2004 Share Posted July 22, 2004 yes you can get them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gregstar05 Posted July 22, 2004 Author Share Posted July 22, 2004 that is the sasser virus. u get tat if u run windows without a firewall or patch lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoochieMamma Posted July 22, 2004 Share Posted July 22, 2004 yes you can get them. Yep :yes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Si Veteran Posted July 22, 2004 Veteran Share Posted July 22, 2004 http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/1365871 (Y) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dessimat0r Posted July 22, 2004 Share Posted July 22, 2004 that is the sasser virus. u get tat if u run windows without a firewall or patch lol But you don't get the sasser worm in images. It uses an exploit in the RPC service, that listens on a certain port, to infect the computer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timsweb Posted July 22, 2004 Share Posted July 22, 2004 Well you can rename a file to a *.jpg and it will think its an image when its not, so you could rename a virus file to an image file, and the comp would try to open it as an image Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nexx Posted July 22, 2004 Share Posted July 22, 2004 I guess it could use a buffer overflow or whatever to execute code, but it would then be dependant on what program you used to view the image. (remember the IE 5.5 bmp exploit after the win2k course leak) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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