On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 2:27 PM, Subba Rao <[email protected]> wrote:
> > His argument is that Malware inside a media file is considered data. > Ask him to define "media" and to give you examples of what sort of media he is thinking of. A PDF file can contain links to web pages that execute javascript in your browser when you view the page. Adobe Flash media is really a wrapper that tells the player what program to use, and how to interpret the data (the codec). In some cases the player executable can be embedded in the media wrapper. Media is NOT just data. And as others have said, even if you *have* pure "data", there are buffer overflows, etc.
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