The jpeg of death vulnerability is being actively exploited. As of today it has been confirmed that a simple and easy to use jpeg virus creation toolkit has been released publicly allowing any idiot to create a viral jpeg image. All systems are vulnerable if they have certain Microsoft software installed.
See here again if you haven't already patched your system.
To further explain what this means, if you have vulnerable software such as IE6 on XP and have not downloaded SP2 then someone could post a viral jpeg image on this BBS in a topic and simply viewing it would install a virus. That applies to ANY website. Even better reason to use Firefox, it's not vulnerable.
[This message has been edited by Evan (edited 09-25-2004).]
See here again if you haven't already patched your system.
To further explain what this means, if you have vulnerable software such as IE6 on XP and have not downloaded SP2 then someone could post a viral jpeg image on this BBS in a topic and simply viewing it would install a virus. That applies to ANY website. Even better reason to use Firefox, it's not vulnerable.
[This message has been edited by Evan (edited 09-25-2004).]
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