I can’t tell from the formatting if these are your words or not, but spend some time on just about anyone’s machine that uses Limewire as their primary means to obtain music and you will see malicious audio files.
-- Mike Gill From: Crawford, Scott [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2010 8:22 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: iTunes Music obtained from peer to peer networks is often infected. No music format that I am aware of has the capability of carrying executable code. All files – music or otherwise – are streams of 1’s and 0’s. I’s solely up to the application playing the files that determine what the bits mean. If there’s a security vulnerability in iTunes, then an MP3 file would be a likely vehicle for delivering it. A file doesn’t need to be overtly “code” to exploit a vulnerability. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
