RE: Infected jpeg files?

On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, OBrien, Brennan wrote:

> Given that images are a major way of transmitting encoded data, it
> stands to reason that the hooks could exist -- that is, it could be a
> transport mechanism. However, the viewer itself would have to know to

The view that "internet images transmit encoded data" is thoroughly
discredited: see http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/21829.html

Some researchers examined two million images from eBay, and found not a
single image containing steganographically encoded data. Primary source:
http://www.citi.umich.edu/techreports/reports/citi-tr-01-11.pdf

But that's neither here nor there in the context of whether the dopey IE
warning about viruses in images is correct.
Received on Nov 09 2001