RE: JPEG Virus

["Peter B. Harvey (Information Security)" <peterharvey () emergency qld gov au>]

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Warning: Your file, virus-jpeg.zip/possibleVirus.jpg, is password-protected. It was not scanned by InterScan.
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To all,

This is a safer way of transmitting such images. Password is "virus"

Also it is not a virus, it is a trojan. Viruses replicate and this one
does not (except through stupidity). Though it won't be long before they
add a simple SMTP engine to it.

Link for download is available from the txt file referred to below

My 2 bits

Peter


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Peter Harvey
Information Security Officer
Dept. Emergency Services - QLD
Phone: +61 7 3109 7213
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From: Joel R. Helgeson [mailto:joel () helgeson com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2004 3:16 PM
To: full-disclosure () netsys com
Subject: [Full-disclosure] JPEG Virus


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At: 9/28/2004 15:29:56
Subject: Exploit-MS04-028

This message has been blocked due to Exploit-MS04-028 which may pose a
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The attached file IS INFECTED with the new JPEG virus... Or rather, it
has the malicious image that will then infect your machine.

Read up on it here:
http://www.easynews.com/virus.txt

Enjoy!

Joel R. Helgeson
Director of Networking & Security Services
SymetriQ Corporation

"Give a man fire, and he'll be warm for a day; set a man on fire, and
he'll be warm for the rest of his life."



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