Forum: Photography


Subject: Virus can infect jpegs!!!

Misha883 opened this issue on Jun 13, 2002 ยท 14 posts


Misha883 posted Thu, 13 June 2002 at 10:32 PM

Attached Link: http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/internet/06/13/picture.virus.ap/index.html

I just pulled this link off of CNN. It has pretty far-reaching implications for the entire Internet. I could imagine that sites such as Renderosity may in the future need to implement some pretty significant virus scanning. There is not a lot of technical details given in the article. I would imagine (in time) normal Internet page graphics could be protected within the Browser. This would just leave other vectors vulnerable; like e-mail attachments or custom software for FTP'ing photos. Not much we can really do now, except any graphic we "Save picture as..." should likely go to a quarantine folder for virus scanning. http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/internet/06/13/picture.virus.ap/index.html