RE: [Declude.Virus] Virus getting through

2004-09-15 Thread John Tolmachoff \(Lists\)
script language=JScript.Encode[EMAIL PROTECTED]@#@[Km!:+ [EMAIL PROTECTED] RANDOM [EMAIL PROTECTED]@iioAAA==^#~@/script I am gonna go ahead and assume that this is where the Action takes place. I am now going to do a body filter (bad, I know) to block anything with Jscript.Encode in it.

[Declude.Virus] Microsoft GDI+ Security Update

2004-09-15 Thread Rodney Bertsch
Oh great... just what we need now. Another avenue for viruses to come after us? Does anybody know anything more about this JPEG vulnerability they're talking about? Are there even any viruses that use this yet? I haven't installed Microsoft's patch yet and wondered what other people's thoughts

Re: [Declude.Virus] Microsoft GDI+ Security Update

2004-09-15 Thread Rick Davidson
Yea this one doesnt look good. Hope Declude can come up with a way to identify these exploit jpeg images in email http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/alerts/SA04-258A.html http://www.microsoft.com/security/bulletins/200409_jpeg.mspx http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS04-028.mspx Rick

Re: [Declude.Virus] Microsoft GDI+ Security Update

2004-09-15 Thread R. Scott Perry
Does anybody know anything more about this JPEG vulnerability they're talking about? Every single JPEG (or other graphic format) vulnerability that I have heard of has been a hoax (including the one that McAfee sent out press releases about). One involved hiding information in the graphic

RE: [Declude.Virus] Microsoft GDI+ Security Update

2004-09-15 Thread Rodney Bertsch
Unfortunately this is from Microsoft's main web page, just click on the Critical Update in the upper right corner of the page. I'm still trying to figure out how a virus can hide in a JPEG? - Rodney -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of R. Scott

RE: [Declude.Virus] Microsoft GDI+ Security Update

2004-09-15 Thread Grant Griffith
I ran the windows update on my desktop and it went fine, however if you use Net Meeting I would hold off. After installing the patches Microsoft sends, when I try to start Net Meeting the screen goes blank and the PC reboots. I have sent an issue to Microsoft, but have not heard anything back

RE: [Declude.Virus] Microsoft GDI+ Security Update

2004-09-15 Thread Andy Schmidt
Hi, I'm still trying to figure out how a virus can hide in a JPEG? JPEG, TIFF and a few other formats are really structured file formats, where a single file contains multiple distinct components, e.g., a full size image and a thumbnail image, IPTC and EXIF descriptions, even XML formatted

RE: [Declude.Virus] Microsoft GDI+ Security Update

2004-09-15 Thread R. Scott Perry
Unfortunately this is from Microsoft's main web page, just click on the Critical Update in the upper right corner of the page. I'm still trying to figure out how a virus can hide in a JPEG? It does appear to be legit. The issue here isn't the common method of running programs in extensions that

Re: [Declude.Virus] Microsoft GDI+ Security Update

2004-09-15 Thread Matt
My guess is that the JPEG exploit would only be used to run a virus payload that lies elsewhere, such as in the body of a message. So you might get a combination of an EXE with a JPEG, and by just viewing the JPEG the EXE would be executed. Hopefully this is the case because I don't want to