Warning. Careful what you browse Trojans loaded here on arfcom.

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Posted: 10/20/2004 10:26:56 AM EDT

I was browsing several posts at once, but I cannot tell which one it came from. Either the botd thread, the funniest pic thread, or the 40 vs 9mm thread. I got a pop up from my virus checker saying it tried to download a trojan, and was caught and deleted.
Make sure your virus checkers are up to date.

Posted: 10/20/2004 10:30:37 AM EDT

[#1]

There is a jpeg virus now. Could be that. Or could be a popup from a linked site. Try using Firefox as a browser. 99% of my issues have dissappeared.

Posted: 10/20/2004 10:40:37 AM EDT

[#2]

Quoted:
There is a jpeg virus now. Could be that. Or could be a popup from a linked site. Try using Firefox as a browser. 99% of my issues have dissappeared.

JPEG virus? As JPEG's are not executable, I can't fathom how it could cause harm, much less reproduce itself. This one needs an explanation.

Posted: 10/20/2004 10:42:31 AM EDT

[#3]

Link

Posted: 10/20/2004 10:42:55 AM EDT

[#4]

Quoted:
Quoted:
There is a jpeg virus now. Could be that. Or could be a popup from a linked site. Try using Firefox as a browser. 99% of my issues have dissappeared.

JPEG virus? As JPEG's are not executable, I can't fathom how it could cause harm, much less reproduce itself. This one needs an explanation.

www.google.com/search?&q=.jpg%20exploit

/http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=.jpeg+exploit

Posted: 10/20/2004 10:43:00 AM EDT

[#5]

news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/security/0,39020375,39168250,00.htm

belieeeeve 'dat, JPEG exploit doesn't even need to be executed by the user. Better get to patching.

Posted: 10/20/2004 10:44:23 AM EDT

[#6]

Quoted:
Quoted:
There is a jpeg virus now. Could be that. Or could be a popup from a linked site. Try using Firefox as a browser. 99% of my issues have dissappeared.

JPEG virus? As JPEG's are not executable, I can't fathom how it could cause harm, much less reproduce itself. This one needs an explanation.

its a security flaw in ie that allows hidden code to execute when viewing a .jpg with microslows viewing software.

the updates should fix it.

always use a virus scan.

TXL

Posted: 10/20/2004 10:44:26 AM EDT

[#7]

www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms04-028.mspx

I have the source code of an example exploiting this security hole, but I will not post it here.

Posted: 10/20/2004 10:44:35 AM EDT

[#8]

Microsoft released the patch for this a month or two ago.

Posted: 10/20/2004 10:49:15 AM EDT

[#9]

I have been bitching about this for a week or more

Posted: 10/20/2004 10:50:49 AM EDT

[#10]

OK, I decided to read up on it a bit. Quite clever, that.

Posted: 10/20/2004 10:51:10 AM EDT

[#11]

Warning. Careful what you browse Trojans loaded here on arfcom.

Is that because of all the BOTD threads?

CW

Posted: 10/20/2004 12:41:47 PM EDT

[#12]

I suspected sometihng odd. My MAC crashed yesterday while trying to read a messsage. MAC's don't usually crash.

Posted: 10/20/2004 12:51:34 PM EDT

[#13]

Quoted:
OK, I decided to read up on it a bit. Quite clever, that.

There are adolescents, with no social life or suntan, who spend 12-14 hours a day looking for vulnerabilities in Microsoft products.

Posted: 10/20/2004 12:56:20 PM EDT

[#14]

Quoted:
I have been bitching about this for a week or more

Yes, but we mentally filter out YOUR bitching.

Posted: 10/20/2004 12:56:26 PM EDT

[#15]

I use opera. it was my virus software the popped up a message saying I was trying to download an infected file. Funny, I thought it said it was a txt file not a jpg, but I wasn't paying as much attention to it as I should have.
Well here is what it said
opr0MD89.htm is infected with Downloader-OO.txt Trojan.
So I couldn't tell what page it was from.