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Rickster0

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16. August 2006 @ 07:33

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What an interesting title i bet your all thinking :)

My question is can video files contain worms/viruses/trojans and if so how are they binded with the video and what sort of program would someone go about using to do it???

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Noqoilpi

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16. August 2006 @ 08:11

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Well a minute ago I would have said no, but leave it to it to Bill G to screw it up.

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1749993,00.asp

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Rickster0

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16. August 2006 @ 08:18

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yeah but in this article it is when you need to download a license for a file thanks for your response but i was wondering if it can be tied in with the file and executed upon downloading or trying to open in a player???

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Noqoilpi

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16. August 2006 @ 08:33

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There are no .exe in a video file. The problem has been when programs like Winamp (MP3) go online to get info. Thats why I always say no when a program wants to auto search for info.

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Rickster0

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16. August 2006 @ 09:00

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i downloaded a file from limewire that was video and once i opened it i was infected. After searching for the file on google i found it but there was only one site that talked about it and it is a file that is spread through P2P. But after reading more i also found that it infects through fake files now the only files i have been downloading lately are media files no music just video.

What it did was made my computer run slow and when i left my computer for a while everytime i came back there would be a flash application running and everything but the start menu would be showing and it jsut bassically said on it "xbox things will never be the same 2001" which i found odd. i checked the running processes and it was called xbox.exe thats how i found the information.

I have cleared the infection now because my pc is now running fine. But at the time what worried me was how no protection programs and scanner i ran could pick it up???

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Rickster0

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28. August 2006 @ 17:56

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Is there anybody that knows about this stuff? lol :)

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The_Fiend

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28. August 2006 @ 20:43

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That's a simple trick, you use a binder to stick a trojan, worm or other piece of malware into a jpeg, AVI, or whatever other filetype you can think of.
Most proper AntiViruS softwares will pick up such "infected" files, so if your AVS didn't find it, it must have been either a really new piece of malware, or you didn't update your AVS properly, OR te AVS you used at that time was cr@p.

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Rickster0

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29. August 2006 @ 14:17

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Well maybe it was something else then :) thanks :)

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