JPEG exploit could beat antivirus, says expert

JPEG exploit could beat antivirus, says expert - ZDNet UK News

Also known as Jpeg of Death, it seems that a newly discovered Windows vulnerability allows nasty people to hide malicious code inside Jpeg files.

This is just almost unbelievable! If you are unfortunate enough to use IE, I suggest you do a quick Windows Update and Office Update.

Talking of Windows Update, has anyone risked the Service Pack 2 upgrade yet? I’m rather worried that everything is going to break if I install it!

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One Response to “JPEG exploit could beat antivirus, says expert - ZDNet UK News”

Ox
September 30th, 2004 15:28
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woooooop,

Yeah man, DAMN I heard about that JPEG exploit, pretty hectic stuff, can soon enough NOTHING is gonna be safe on a PC sheeeeeesh.

I have installed SP2 on my desktop, it seems to be behaving rather good actually, the firewall isnt all as bad as everyone thinks, its pretty neat actually, well the only reason is because the last time I formatted my PC about 3 times, and though f*** it I might as well just install SP 2 now, what is the worst that can happen, I’ll have to reformatt, But yeah, it seems to be behaving for me.

/Ox