The emergence of a new virus that infects JPEG files was announced Thursday by security firm Network Associates and other antivirus companies, which received the code as a possible warning of things to come from its creator, who has requested anonymity.
The W32/Perrun virus, as it is now being called, extracts data from JPEG files and then injects picture files with infected digital images. A fair warning to those individuals who are fond of sending multimedia files to friends and families.
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When it was first seen, it was reported to be a multiplatform virus capable of .. a virus could sensibly be spread by a graphics file such as a JPEG or .
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If a COM or EXE file is found the virus reads 5000 bytes of file to memory and JPG *.DOC *.HLP (space)*.*. The virus was first reported in Africa.
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What makes Perrun so remarkable, according to security experts, is that it is the first viral program with multiple parts and the ability to carry viral code from programs into data files. Until now, data files were relatively immune to infection. Not so anymore, say experts.
Typically, the virus arrives via email or a floppy disk as an executable file, and so the standard warning against opening programs sent as attachment should once again be enforced. The contaminated file unleashes an extractor virus onto the hard drive and when a picture file is accessed with the .JPG extension, the second part of the virus strikes without notice to the sender or receiver of the digital image file.
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Jul 7, 2006 A new multidropper variant has been found again today! . So far, this is the first Symbian Virus that I've seen that it will steal user
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