RE: Infected jpeg files?

["Bruce Ediger" <eballen1 () qwest net>]

On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, OBrien, Brennan wrote:

> Given that images are a major way of transmitting encoded data, it
> stands to reason that the hooks could exist  -- that is, it could be a
> transport mechanism.  However, the viewer itself would have to know to

The view that "internet images transmit encoded data" is thoroughly
discredited:  see http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/21829.html

Some researchers examined two million images from eBay, and found not a
single image containing steganographically encoded data. Primary source:
http://www.citi.umich.edu/techreports/reports/citi-tr-01-11.pdf

But that's neither here nor there in the context of whether the dopey IE
warning about viruses in images is correct.