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So how soon till The Next Big Widespread Virus?
    #3139426 - 09/15/04 03:59 PM (19 years, 6 months ago)

What I mean to say is, how soon till some russian hacker kid finds the exploit in JPEG files, and infects every non-patched windows system?

If you haven't heard, someone found a vulnerability that lets someone put executable code into JPEG files, which then gets run when you view it. This affects Windows XP (Internet explorer, office, etc) among other things, except PC's with XP SP2.

I work at a PC repair place, and you wouldn't believe the number of PCs that I service, where the client has not once gone to windows update.

I suppose it is only a matter of time before someone takes advantage of that problem, and releases the next huge worm that afflicts thousands, maybe millions of computers running Windows XP.

If you're on Win98 or ME, no worry.

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Re: So how soon till The Next Big Widespread Virus? [Re: poke smot!]
    #3140183 - 09/15/04 06:33 PM (19 years, 6 months ago)

A lot of people couldn't be bothered or lack the tecnical know-how (some are pretty clueless) to get all the recent updates, so I guess it's just a matter of time. Sooner than later I suspect...

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Re: So how soon till The Next Big Widespread Virus? [Re: poke smot!]
    #3140324 - 09/15/04 06:52 PM (19 years, 6 months ago)


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