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Re: OT: Perrun virus: Is this Windoze only?



begin  Alan Shutko  quotation:

> Paul E Condon <pecondon@quiknet.com> writes:
> 
> > Today's Sacramento Bee contains a news report about a new virus,
> > called Perrun, that infects JPEG files. (Yes, data files) 
> 
> Those "infected" jpegs are completely harmless unless you already have
> been infected by the real virus.

Which rather begs the question of what the point is of "infecting" the
JPEG files at all. This whole thing is just more of McAfee's usual
dishonest hype for their anti-virus software.

Craig


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