Re: JPG/GIF Virus now?

2003-12-25 Thread Stefan Tanurkov
Hello Scott, Sunday, December 21, 2003, 10:15:28 AM, you wrote: S Any idea if The Bat would be vulnerable to this?? No, TB! is not vulnerable because it doesn't try to open a file with a graphic extension as a non-graphic file. However, if an external image viewer is used (see the options in

Re: JPG/GIF Virus now?

2003-12-22 Thread Carsten Thönges
* Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Be careful how you view your JPG and GIF files (from now on)... [...] Any idea if The Bat would be vulnerable to this?? Take this (non-existant) URL: http://www.example.com/pics/me.jpg If you visit such a site you'd expect your browser to display the file

Re: JPG/GIF Virus now?

2003-12-22 Thread Jernej Simonèiè
On Monday, December 22, 2003, 16:14:16, Carsten Thönges wrote: Thus it appears that The Bat! is not vulnerable against this scenario because it doesn't confuse being a mailreader with being a web browser ... like others do. As far as I've understood, when IE engine encounters an image file,

Re: JPG/GIF Virus now?

2003-12-22 Thread Thomas Fernandez
Hello Jernej, On Mon, 22 Dec 2003 17:38:21 +0100 GMT (22/12/2003, 23:38 +0700 GMT), Jernej Simonèiè wrote: Thus it appears that The Bat! is not vulnerable As far as I've understood, when IE engine Two different pieces of software. encounters an image file, it will try to autodetect what

JPG/GIF Virus now?

2003-12-21 Thread Scott
Be careful how you view your JPG and GIF files (from now on)... http://www.vnunet.com/News/1151553 === Clip == Security specialist ISS said contributors to hacker mailing lists have recently been discussing new techniques to bypass firewalls by mislabelling general HTML files as

Re: JPG/GIF Virus now?

2003-12-21 Thread Thomas Fernandez
Hello Scott, On Sun, 21 Dec 2003 02:15:28 -0600 GMT (21/12/2003, 15:15 +0700 GMT), Scott wrote: Be careful how you view your JPG and GIF files (from now on)... http://www.vnunet.com/News/1151553 I can't reach that page at the moment. the problem is caused by Microsoft's Internet Explorer