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Kasumi-Astra Administrator Level: 62  Posts: 1204/1867 EXP: 1971846 For next: 12840 Since: 03-15-04 From: Reading, UK Uni: Sheffield, UK Since last post: 1 day Last activity: 12 hours |
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| Hmmm... This is interesting. About a week ago one of my rl friends contacted me over MSN and was acting strange. Later on in the night, after I was working in Photoshop, I closed down the application to be faced with hundreds of IE windows opening. It was quite disturbing, seeing as I had a firewall in place. It seemed his sort of style, but I know he's not that good enough to get past a firewall. The only anomoly is that this happened a week before this news report. (edited by Kasumi-Astra on 02-14-05 02:57 PM) |
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Xkeeper The required libraries have not been defined. Level: NAN  Posts: -2533/-863 EXP: NAN For next: 0 Since: 03-15-04 Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: -753366 sec. |
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Originally posted by danThat might be why. It seems MS just noticed it, or something  |
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Felix Nipper Plant Level: 33 Posts: 407/422 EXP: 208347 For next: 20832 Since: 04-03-04 From: Canada Since last post: 224 days Last activity: 6 days |
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Originally posted by Lezard Valeth I'm not really an expert on program libraries, but as long as you're not using some sort of plugin designed to display ICQ and/or MSN avatars, I don't see any immediate threat. But then again, I was actually unaware that image files like .jpg and .png could even contain viruses in the first place, so I'm probably not the best source for such things. And I totally agree with you concerning Miranda and Firefox and the like. There's something infinitely comforting about choosing what features you want to have precicely if and when you decide you want to have them. |
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donjames Newcomer Level: 4 Posts: 1/4 EXP: 129 For next: 150 Since: 02-14-05 Since last post: 258 days Last activity: 255 days |
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Surlent サーレント Level: 49  Posts: 768/1077 EXP: 863920 For next: 19963 Since: 03-15-04 From: Tower of Lezard Valeth Since last post: 16 hours Last activity: 1 hour |
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Originally posted by donjames If you could provide us with some more information, that would be great indeed  That's the way, I think, not only browsers for example. Like ICQ 5. They may put in ten thousend features, but I never use all features. For speech there is Skype, which is for free and can use everyone with a broadband connection (on smallband it uses up a part of the connection speed), video may be limited to MSN or maybe other messengers, but anyway I doubt all people turn on video chat always  Also I don't like ad-banners when I'm chatting. But although we're using Firefox and such, we should be careful. Before Firefox 1.0 PR (yes, I'm talking about preview release) was out, they were already few trojans, using .xpi endings, which affected Mozilla. But, the developers reacted and added a install software block feature. A whitellist-powered feature which first blocks all attempts to install software first. MS don't react on errors, this is especially annoying, because I paid about 90 Euros for my Windows XP Home license. So I at least expect some functionality (edited by Lezard Valeth on 02-14-05 09:10 PM) |
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HyperLamer <||bass> and this was the soloution i thought of that was guarinteed to piss off the greatest amount of people Sesshomaru Tamaranian Level: 118 Posts: 3296/8210 EXP: 18171887 For next: 211027 Since: 03-15-04 From: Canada, w00t! LOL FAD Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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Any file type can contain a virus if the program that opens it handles its data badly. JPEG, PNG etc aren't supposed to be able to contain code, but through some trickery of the format it's possible to get these programs to dump parts of the file into the wrong place; then you just need to put code in that part of the file and bam, virus.Originally posted by donjames Nice post you got there. |
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Dylan Devil Trumpets and Angel Trombones ~ Level: 54  Posts: 1301/1407 EXP: 1181697 For next: 52173 Since: 06-19-04 From: Ottawa, Canada. Since last post: 1 day Last activity: 6 hours |
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Originally posted by donjames Lmao, thats exactly what I thought when I read the thread title. Then I thought, "boring! I don't want to read this!" and now I have the virus. A friend of mine sent me this link on msn, well at least I thought it was my friend, but it was actually an imposter. Now I have oldschool msn from the 90s and it randomly logs me in and out. Yay! |
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