Trojan embedded in a JPEG

[bodhi]

woha - used Google Images to search for a movie poster JPEG.

thank goodness Kaspersky blocked the trojan

i love kaspersky

 

[Telkomisaloser]

AFAIK viruses cannot be embedded in a JPEG... could be a virus disguised as a .jpeg

 

[bodhi]

AFAIK viruses cannot be embedded in a JPEG... could be a virus disguised as a .jpeg

ok - thanks for clearing that up - learned something new

/me bows

 

[qdada]

i seem to recalled a vulneribility to some jpgs by MS Office products, this could be a variant of such vulneribility

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&ct=r...JyzgCsSG3DTkOjebg&sig2=WPPrKDDy9roS506LwpyK3g

 

[Telkomisaloser]

JPEG/JPG's can store viral code in their Exif but they are useless by themselves unless executed by a virus

 

[HavocXphere]

JPEG/JPG's can store viral code in their Exif but they are useless by themselves unless executed by a virus

No. qDot is right. There is a buffer overflow vulnerability which really does work by only opening the *jpeg* itself. No exe required. They fixed it in SP2 though. Affects a bunch of Office products, browsers and anything else that uses the gdi code for jpegs.

 

[Telkomisaloser]

No. qDot is right. There is a buffer overflow vulnerability which really does work by only opening the *jpeg* itself. No exe required. They fixed it in SP2 though. Affects a bunch of Office products, browsers and anything else that uses the gdi code for jpegs.

Eish I didn't know that...

Sighs... the things that people try and do nowdays

 

[MeNeZ]

I heard hackers can create infected websites using trojan jpegs.

Its stored in your temp internet folder and when you restart your pc is infected...