[plug] Microsoft opens doorways for jpeg viruses

[Marc Wiriadisastra]

Chris Caston wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-09-30 at 20:59, Carl Gherardi wrote:
> 
>>On 30/09/2004, at 3:14 PM, Marc Wiriadisastra wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Hey all,
>>>
>>>Just saw this article in news.com and it looks like you and I will  
>>>have more work on our plate thanks to the people at redmond.
>>>
>>>
>>>http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/
>>>0,4057,10916227%255E15306,00.html
>>>
>>
>>In defense of Microsoft(eek!), Mozilla has had almost exactly the same  
>>problem up until recently. The response from Microsoft was slower than  
>>Mozilla but pretty quick for them.
>>
>>Carl
>>
> 
> 
> I haven't had any customers catch anything yet and most of the ones I
> have tried the detection tool on weren't vulnerable at least in the OS.
> If the attacker can convince the victim the open a file with a jpeg in
> MS Office it may be a different story as Office updates are not
> currently automatic.
>  
I think they were mainly targeting pornographic news groups since in my 
opinion it would be easier to get people to look at images there.