I think I'll join in on this one Re There is NO virus currently existing that can sit in a video file.
That's a similar statement to 'You have to open an email attachment to get a Trojan or virus 'You cannot get a virus on a phone 'You cannot get at somebody's car control chip without physical access That safe is unbreakable Government controls ensure that companies cannot get away with fraud And - from the UK government - the implication that anyone with 'nasty' images on their PC must be a pervert, and should be prosecuted (Anyone want to look at a nice children's toy site - but can you be sure that all the images on the page within the site are shown on the screen you view, or they don't show something different if you change the resolution and colour depth) With the current PC hardware and applications module construction (mixed data, control and executable code) you cannot really be sure that anything you process using the sort of sophisticated viewers/processing modules incorporated into current PC software environments will not be able to exploit things like buffer over-run, and 'mis-constructed' control sets You need to be careful even viewing a txt file under basic DOS as the file could contain character sets that an 'ANSI' aware program would take as control sets for screen, or printer control - also ever seen what can happen if you send a set of characters that appear to the printer to be an 'almost valid' PCL, or PS control set. Anyone know how easy it would be to 'merge 2 video's, one that's is 'nice' and the other that is not, so that the playback mode, PAL or NTSC determines what's seen on the TV screen JimB Me - Yes I download, but only from 'proper' sites - and check 'signatures' ( and - I'm not happy about having to connect to the internet to get fixes to the base installs of my OS and security facilities) If I suspect that a download may be suspect - then it's the Quarantine system for that - No link out No live data that I do not have elsewhere And - that OS instance will be overwritten from a normally external media that is only connected to be booted from. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kylde" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2005 10:17 PM Subject: Re: APPS: limewire > I disagree! NO, there is plenty of copyright-free material out there, YOU choose what to download, common sense would tell you what is copyrighted and what isnt, if you choose to download something you are unsure of then caveat emptor ... and to say a video download could contain a backdoor is just plain wrong? There is NO virus currently existing that can sit in a video file. I used bit-torrent recently to download a fans version of Star wars, called Star Wars Revelations, 10GB, 2 X dvds plus covers etc, all legit <http://www.panicstruckpro.com/revelations/revelations_movie.html> and I often download freeware golf courses for Links LS via p2p as it can be quicker than web access. Torrent's creator Bram Cohen bemoans the misuse of bittorrent, he created it as a new medium, he does NOT encourage piracy, he DOES encourage the free spread of bytes ... irc and usenet/newsgroups are the PRIME source for new releases (ftp too, but too irc/newsgroup seeders) and from THERE they leak onto the p2p networks, so should your reply apply to agent, mirc etc too :) ? > > Wayne Johnson wrote on 06/09/2005, 20:42: > > > Yes & the other thing is there is nothing preventing some one from renaming an adult film to a children's film title just to entice you to download it or something worse as it could contain backdoors into your system. > -- > Regards > > Kylde -- ---------------------------------------- WIN-HOME Archives: http://PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM/archives/WIN-HOME.html Contact the List Owner about anything: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Official Win-Home List Members Profiles Page http://www.besteffort.com/winhome/Profiles.html
