Re: JPEG Virus

[Dave Horsfall <dave () horsfall org>]

On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, Dave Horsfall wrote:

> On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, Joel R. Helgeson wrote:
>
> > The attached file IS INFECTED with the new JPEG virus... Or rather, it
> > has the malicious image that will then infect your machine.
>
> Odd; it didn't seem to work on any of my *BSD boxes.  XV complains about
> extraneous bytes and the quantizatiion (sic) table.
>
> Oh well; it looks like we *BSD users are safe from this one :-)

Hmmm...  Not a bad night's fishing.  Two personal replies in my mailbox,
from a couple of lusers who obviously missed the difference between the
above declaration "will then infect your machine" with the obvious
correction of "will then infect your WINDOZE machine."

-- Dave

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