full-disclosure - JPEG Virus

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From: dave at horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Subject: JPEG Virus

On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, Joel R. Helgeson wrote:

> The attached file IS INFECTED with the new JPEG virus... Or rather, it
> has the malicious image that will then infect your machine.

Odd; it didn't seem to work on any of my *BSD boxes.  XV complains about
extraneous bytes and the quantizatiion (sic) table.

Oh well; it looks like we *BSD users are safe from this one :-)

-- Dave