[PLUG] First JPEG virus is out there

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Tue Sep 28 06:22:01 UTC 2004


On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Keith Lofstrom wrote:

> This first one roots windoze, but I assume we are next.  Get that Mozilla
> upgraded, folks, and turn off jpeg viewing in email until you get those
> clients upgraded.  The storms should be starting soon...  :-( :-( :-(

Keith,

   Under what circumstances does one encounter jpegs in the wild? I'm not
being facicious: are they embedded in Web sites?

   On the mail side, those of us who use pine, mutt, emacs and others don't
have a problem with this.

Rich

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Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President
Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM)
<http://www.appl-ecosys.com>




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