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News - Virus writers focus on image bug
News on page http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3684552.stm
This will be interesting I think you should tell surffers to apply patches before a virus is written . Thank you 
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2004-09-24, 01:54 PM
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Well, looks like I'd better get off my lazy butt and start patching before disaster hits |blinky|
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2004-09-24, 05:41 PM
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Ran the update and it seems to be checking over for MS Office stuff that uses jpegs and gifs, which I assume is most of their software...
All clean here.
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2004-09-24, 07:21 PM
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Selling porn allows me to stay in a constant state of Bliss - ain't that a trip!
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I was wondering wether this new jpeg based exploit would be a hassle for the porn biz.
I haven't heard of an active bug yet, just proof of concept exploits passed around in the very top levels of the security/virus writers cabals. |
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2004-09-26, 05:04 AM
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Aw, Dad, you've done a lot of great things, but you're a very old man, and old people are useless
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Ahahaahaaa.... that says a lot about M$.....
Its not JPEG exploit its M$ image handling exploit.  Luckily I use Linux  http://www.greenguysboard.com/board/...threadid=11478 |
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2004-09-26, 07:28 PM
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Re: News - Virus writers focus on image bug
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for anyone wanting to check or patch their system, instructions are here: http://www.microsoft.com/security/bu...0409_jpeg.mspx |
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2004-09-27, 04:47 AM
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You can now put whatever you want in this space :)
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thanks for the info eveyone. now i need to do the same...start running the update etc.
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2004-09-28, 04:38 PM
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Selling porn allows me to stay in a constant state of Bliss - ain't that a trip!
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Okay, a fairly mild trojan based on this has been released in the wild now.
Cnet called it "JPEG virus" Eweek called it "JPEG exploit" PCweek called it "JPEG hole". Surfers are going to think of it as the JPEG bug, despite the fact that it's actually an image handling exploit. |
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2004-09-28, 04:48 PM
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Selling porn allows me to stay in a constant state of Bliss - ain't that a trip!
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Here's a revealing headline:
Corrupted porn pics expose Microsoft hole Techworld.com (subscription), United Kingdom - 5 hours ago By Paul Roberts, IDG News Service. Hackers are targeting porn news groups with jpeg images that exploit the recently discovered hole in Microsoft software. ... |
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2004-09-30, 11:07 AM
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All the way from Room 101
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Here's some recent news about the bug...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3701640.stm Vulnerable programs are:- Windows XP Windows XP Service Pack 1 Windows Server 2003 Internet Explorer 6 SP1 Office XP SP3 Office 2003 Digital Image Pro 7.0 Digital Image Pro 9 Digital Image Suite 9 Greetings 2002 Picture It! 2002 Picture It! 7.0 Picture It! 9 Producer for PowerPoint Project 2002 SP1 Project 2003 Visio 2002 SP2 Visio 2003 Visual Studio .NET 2002 Visual Studio .NET 2003
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