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First JPEG Virus Posted To Usenet
Shawn writes "This could possibly be the worst viruses yet! Earlier this month Microsoft announced a problem in their GDI driver that processes the way JPEG images are displayed. Someone has finally posted an exploit to Usenet. Easynews, a premium Usenet provider, found the virus Sunday afternoon. Up-to-date information about how we found it and what it does is located at www.easynews.com/virus.txt. When this picture is viewed it installs remote management software (winvnc and radmin) and will connect to irc."
The problem: MS Solution? : use linux!
shut up, please.
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you're a goddamn idiot. a suitably constructed jpeg will cause an overflow in the gdi+ library which ie and most msft programs use to render jpegs, when that happens the jpeg can be made such that the overflow will cause virus code to be loaded. god you're an idiot.
speaking of pop ups..imagine if they landed their way into some pop ups..even more havock for windows users. Sometimes I wonder when they will wise up...
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The msxml implementation is orders of magnitude faster than unix XSLT interpreter offerings (saxon, etc) .NET is good too, if you can sit still long enough to read the documentation on it.
Windows media 9 has better video compression than contenders as well.
other than that, nothing I can think of! And certainly not much for a company that size.
As an aside: What have other large companies done in the past 4 years?
Sun: Nothing (bought open office)
Apple: Stole the iPod idea from Archos and Creative, made it overpriced.
IBM: Sold hard drive division to Hitachi.
JPEG corrupts you!
Sure, the delivery mechanism is a little different, but this is just another of the 60,000+ Windows viruses running in the wild. Why is this news? Don't Windows inmates just check the same places and follow the same procedures every day?
--- For a good time mail uce@ftc.gov
Yah, Linux is boring - it just works...
Surely, you must be joking.
Where are modpoints when you need them.. this is the biggest piece of flaimbait I've ever seen.
You ARE a paranoid conspiracy nut.
You're also a fucking anti-semite.. "look a virus came out, it must be the Israeli secret service"
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I don't appreciate political agendas published under the guise of "news." Stop it. It's annoying. I'm very intelligent. I don't need political rubbish smuggled into "news" information. If you continue down this path, I will go elsewhere.
I come here for news on IT and other technical subjects, not to read some college puke's liberal agenda. "Save the whales" can best be done somewhere else. You annoy me. If you continue to do so, I will help spread the word that Slashdot editors are sending out political agendas with their "news". You are just as bad as any of the biased national media organizations. I never thought it would happen, but it has.
As a slashdot editor, don't you have any responsibility to weed out any political tripe?
Fuck you, and have a nice day.
--And you are a sputtering, pre-programmed fool. Anybody who has bothered to look beyond Fox and CNN will know; the Mossad is one of the most dangerous and prolific secret agencies on the planet; anybody who criticizes Israel in any significant way is asking for trouble. (Or air to surface missiles into their wheel chair.)
Seriously. Look beyond the prescribed. There are some very smart and very even-keeled people who, (unlike the shouting poster I'm responding to), are not filled with knee-jerk emotional buttons. These are people who have studied the many various issues, not with hate, but rather out of curiosity and a sense of responsibility to know what the truth is and to share it.
Look up: "Israeli Moving Companies" and "Dancing art students". Those two threads alone will pull an avalanche of data into your hands. --If you want to see it. --Don't stop on the first hysterical webpage and say, "See! I looked and it's all insane crap!" If you only want to see evidence to support your delusions, then that is certainly all you will find.
Michael Moore took a lot of care to avoid talking about the elephant in the living room with his latest film. He's no dolt; he knows that potato is just too hot. (That is, can you imagine an army of pre-programmed fools like the one I'm responding to burning copies of his film? I can.)
Despite the fact that the emotionally charged term, 'Anti-Semite' is growing less effective as rationality catches up to reality, I want to be clear:
I am not anti-semitic. I AM anti-Zionist. The Jews are caught in the cross-fire. The Semites, ALL Semites, both Jew and Arab, are the final target of this new World War. --You will probably not read a more essential and un-recognized truth for the rest of this year.
I've been saying it for several years, and now it's becoming very hard to ignore. . . WWII was a dry run. It's all starting to happen again.
JPEG viruses and plenty of tax-paid astro-turfing are par for this course. They only have to keep people confused and quiet for one more month and then guys like me can be arrested without hassle.
-FL