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Topic: New? Old? Worm
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Demon-of-Elru
TFC Bitch
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posted 08-25-2001 08:15
   
2 of my friends got a virus worm thing that disguises itself as an MP3. When you "play" it, it infects other MP3s and JPGs, turning them into vbscripts with the worm code [ or so I gather ]. I'm curious, is this a new thing or an old thing?IP: Logged |
Jimbo
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posted 08-25-2001 08:17
More of a "bullshit" thing. If the extension is .mp3 (as opposed to a SirCam-style ".mp3.pif" or some such), you can't get a virus from double-clicking it.IP: Logged |
Demon-of-Elru
TFC Bitch
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posted 08-25-2001 13:38
Couldnt the code be written into it? Like images [ or so I'm told ]?IP: Logged |
Jimbo
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posted 08-25-2001 17:28
No.IP: Logged |
Jimbo
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posted 08-25-2001 17:42
:: relenting, explaining why not ::Images and MP3s aren't executed. Instead, they are opened with "helper applications" that simply interpret the data. Even if you stuck a virus into an MP3, it wouldn't ever do anything but make a nasty-sounding fart in the music when Winamp (or Media Player) got to the virus code - because nothing in the file is ever executed. IP: Logged |
Chess Piece Face
piss-drunk cockmaster
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posted 08-25-2001 18:15
quote:
Originally posted by Jimbo:
:: relenting, explaining why not ::
Wuss. IP: Logged |
fenomas
argument nazi
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posted 08-25-2001 23:34
Hah. This shows what Jimbo knows. He is blindly assuming that Microsoft won't make a wildly popular mp3 player that includes macros and can write to the registry. Perhaps the virus writers are just thinking ahead.IP: Logged |
Jimbo
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posted 08-25-2001 23:54
Actually, blame that concept on the Mac - if you run a Macintrash, data files CAN be infected with executable virus code, because the OS allows for standard "hooks" within the file system that cause data files to execute code when opened.Thanks, Jooky! Anyway, at the moment there is no provision within Media Player for running macros embedded in an MP3 - and thankfully, even if Mickeysoft DID put such a provision in place, it would actually break the MPG and MP3 standards, although presumably they could find some way to tuck something nasty away in an AVI without breaking standards for non-MS apps, since AVI is an encapsulated format anyway. [/geek] IP: Logged |
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