Re: Can any one tell...about viruses
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] Can any one tell...about viruses
- From: M*
- Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 02:35:06 +0100
"R.J. Baynum" wrote:
> And just as a reminder to everyone..
> The attachments were a Jpeg,.. not to be confused with a EXE file,
> which by way, you should know, if you understood anything about
> computers in any basic way, is that the only way a virus can spread, you
> first must click on a EXE file. Secondly, Yahoo Groups already Screens
> for viruses in all incoming mail on their server as well. So getting a
> virus is highly unlikely unless your an idiot and you want to, and
> asked for one.
Sorry, R.J. Baynum, even not-idiots may get viruses through pictures. I left Iris-photos just for that reason about a year ago when John first reported viruses sneaking in that way, although
it was heartbreaking to miss all those beautiful irispictures. But as I work a lot with images I canīt afford viruses.
For upgrading again, I checked it up today with a computering son of mine, and he said there are ways to hide an exe-file inside a "broken" jpg-file, it looks like that broken picturesymbol
you can see on home pages when a picture does not show up, but most probably, you never have a chance to see it that way before some sloppy programmed microsoftproduct accepts it as a real
jpg-file and lets the virus into your computer. Of course I can not reproduce his technical lingua but he mentioned WindowsExplorer 6.0 and Outlook
I think we all should be very, very thankful to John for his stern attitude to attachments on this list.
Maj Ohrstrom, Sweden
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