important: the first JPEG trojan.

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important: the first JPEG trojan.

Postby ShiroiHikari » Fri Nov 05, 2004 6:56 am

you XP people need to go here right now if you're not on Service Pack 2.

http://www.microsoft.com/security/bulletins/200409_jpeg.mspx

read these as well.

http://www.dvhardware.net/article3194.htm
http://www.winnetmag.com/Article/Articl ... 44039.html

it's so...wrong, isn't it.

be very careful opening attachments in your email. as a matter of fact, don't open any attachments unless you already know someone was sending it to you.
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Postby Slater » Fri Nov 05, 2004 7:59 am

it's very old news... saw it on DA about a month ago. Still, good to know about.
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Postby ShiroiHikari » Fri Nov 05, 2004 9:15 am

always nice to know info is appreciated.
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Postby SwordSkill » Fri Nov 05, 2004 6:09 pm

I think you may automatically (and accidentally) open the JPEG as well if it's posted on a site and you happen to be browsing that site and it's uploaded there. That's the part that's scaring me.
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Postby TheMelodyMaker » Fri Nov 05, 2004 6:34 pm

I meant to ask about this a while ago when my mom had heard about it on the news and told me about it, and then I totally forgot. Thanks for the heads up, ShiHi. ^_^
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Postby Mr. SmartyPants » Fri Nov 05, 2004 9:59 pm

lol read about this, apparently the coding was bad so instead of messing uo the victims computer, it only crashed it. Which can be fixed by a reboot.
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Postby Master Kenzo » Sat Nov 06, 2004 5:25 am

I don't think it's bad enough to make me move to SP2. And, correct me if I'm wrong, but the article said "this does not affect SP2," not "this is fixed in SP2" ... hinting that there should be an update for SP1 holdouts.
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