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I got a fun little trojan downloader from a hacked JPG a little while ago. Apparently that's the favored vector of WoW gold farmers. It was a slippery little bastard so I wound up reformatting (I was considering one since windows had gotten a little wonky anyway). Wish I could remember the name. 
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AceSnyp3r posted:I have a question kind of related to this thread. Are there/have there been any known ways for a virus to spread via e-mail without the use of an attachment or embedded image/audio/video/java/etc.? I poked around in Google for "jpg trojan" but a lot of the results looked sketchy so click at your own risk I guess  thelightguy posted:The last JPG arbitrary code execution vulnerability I've heard of was one that affected Windows 2000 and, I think, Windows XP RTM. I don't think there have been any since then but I may be wrong. XP RTM? I was running XP SP3 at the time. Maybe Vista patched that up. I didn't even know I had the nasty little bugger until my girlfriend's WoW account was hacked.
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Dec 17, 2008 03:40
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Casao posted:You might've been running SP3, but unless these Chinese gold farmers know of some jpg exploit that nobody else in the universe does, you didn't get it via a jpg, you got it from doing something else. Probably something stupid, too. The only thing I can think of is there was a thread on a gold farmer in another forum with a hotlinked picture. I hadn't got any email attachments and certainly wouldn't have opened them. Who the hell knows, though...
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Dec 17, 2008 14:53
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Well, I was using Firefox....does this mean IE7 is actually safer? Also, I wasn't running real-time-AV at the time. Yeah, pretty dumb.
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Dec 17, 2008 15:15
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Capnbigboobies posted:I think the computer I am working on today is the worst machine I have ever found. So far antivir has found, I poo poo you not, over 4000 viruses. So at what point do you call it a total loss and reformat?
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Dec 20, 2008 04:31
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Format and reinstall. gently caress him if he can't be responsible.
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Feb 8, 2009 21:11
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BorderPatrol posted:Here's a good one I ran across today? Which one is Norton Internet Security 2006 and which one is Spy Defender? More importantly, which one causes more damage to your computer?
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May 21, 2009 05:59
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Midelne posted:Morro has apparently done very well in initial tests on detection, disinfection, and avoidance of false-positives. Neat. I have it running on my XP32 machine and so far so good. I can't speak for it's effectiveness since I do at least try to avoid getting nasty software, but can say with 100% certainty it doesn't have Avira Free's annoying nag popups.
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Jun 25, 2009 02:01
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get microsoft security essentials oh wait, you can't 
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Jul 12, 2009 02:12
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Misogynist posted:Interesting article from Yahoo news about malware that turned a guy's computer into a child porn repository. I feel for those people because, well, kiddie porn is one accusation that justcan't be approached rationally. An accusation is as damning as signed confession with dated photos. Even if you get acquitted 100% you'll never be treated the same way.
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Nov 9, 2009 19:42
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Capnbigboobies posted:So the other day MSE popped up with a warning that one of my buddies on aim (which one I do not know) had some sort of exploited .jpeg. I had this problem the other day with a collection of PNG/GIF and PDF files. I doubt they had any problems but they weren't important enough to save.
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Dec 10, 2009 05:11
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 So how ugly are these customers? Obviously MSE found and dealt with them but who knows how long they were sitting on my machine. Thanks Java!  What's the most likely vector? Do I need to start changing passwords?
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He needs to change the password from a known clean computer first. Changing the password on the infected computer won't help anything.
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