"Chris D. Sloan" wrote: > > As with most things where the question is, "Is it possible...?" the > answere is that, yes it is *possible*. Someone could have written the > viewer to specifically interpret the JPEG contents as an executable. > The particular viewer you are using might overflow its stack and maybe > a carefully constructed JPEG could take advantage of that to run > malicious code. http://securityfocus.com/bid/1503 > > Unless the person who wrote your viewer was malicious, though, I would > suspect the threat of anything like this actually happening in the > real world is about as high as the threat that there exist malicious > text files which would cause Notepad to infect other text files. Wordpad, not Notepad (AFAIK.) BB
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