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A new virus...

Hmmm....I wouldn't think that was possible? And still be able to display the picture correctly? Anti-virus companies must be happy.
 
Infected JPEGs are unable to replicate on non-infected machines - ie. machines without the extractor component installed (hooked in the Registry).
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I think that's the key part. So although the data might be stored in a picture it won't infect your computer if open an infected picture. You would still have to open the executable.

If it writes its code to JPEG's though I wonder if stenography scanners would have picked it up? I really don't care one way or the other but it would be interesting to find out. :)
 
i was worried on how advanced viruses were so far with this one, so i posted the news at a bunch of forums, i read the news article before i made my but didnt cache the need to have a file with it to reconize the code..
 
Originally posted by is0lized
http://www.nerdnations.com/bbs/showthread.php?threadid=189


make it news on my forum, thanks for letting me know

It looks like it changes registry hooks to change the associated file from whatever you had before to the virus. It's still an executable file, like all viruses. You run the initial executable, and you're infected.

http://vil.mcafee.com/dispVirus.asp?virus_k=99522
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So this executable has to be run on a computer first then? If so, that's a little better.... It would mean that you can't get infected by having an infected .jpg load in your web browser then.
 
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