Aachen Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 can a .avi or .mpg file be infected by a virus or spyware? ps: i'm not talking about .avi.exe files, but real video files ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cacoe Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 Wrong section. But in a very very very round about way, they could be if your media player has an exploit, but generally, no. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Borbus Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 AVI files can contain a media link to websites at certain timecodes... It's been a long while since I used AVI, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Alex- Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 In a way, yes they can. If the movie has DRM and (for example) Media player connects to a website to get the DRM authentication, that website can download rubbish to your PC. Seen it done before with pr0n movies :ninja: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cacoe Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 That would be WMA files... As far as I'm aware, mpg and avi files are not capable of drm? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CelticWhisper Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 I second Kalkal's assertion. I've never seen executable code embedded in an AVI or MPEG file in such a way that it can be arbitrarily executed (steganographic tech doesn't count, obviously, since you have to extract the binary first). Avoid WMA/WMV files, and it should go without saying to avoid anything using any kind of DRM, and you should be fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aachen Posted February 12, 2008 Author Share Posted February 12, 2008 thank you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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