That code crept into the Windows code base about two maybe three years
ago. Jpegs were harmless up until that point. Microsoft was forced to
update their systems to correct that problem. This incident took place
almost 6 years ago.
Herb Chong wrote:
some versions of IE will launch some code when opening a JPG that
would overflow a buffer. a properly constructed JPG file would place
code in the overflow that could execute and do anything that IE was
privilege to do, i.e. anything.
Herb....
----- Original Message ----- From: "P. J. Alling"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, November 26, 2005 11:58 AM
Subject: Re: My first PESO
Filters don't know nothin' but they block everything. I remember a
rumor from about 5 years ago that Jpegs could carry
viruses, (no explanation of how they could operate or spread), the
administrators of the CSC wan decided to block all Jpegs
from being downloaded system wide. It crippled web use including our
own internal web sites... (They used the same warning
message that "inappropriate" web sites displayed, it was "fun").
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