NODE 00615542[NOISE]Re: stego virus aka Intro to Computers 101
jfricker@vertexgroup.com (John F. Fricker)Thu, 29 Aug 1996 13:30:52 +0800
trying not to be technical
Excecuting a program involves putting commands into the CPU. Move data such
as a GIF or a JPEG is not anywhere near the same.
GIF, JPEGs, TIFFs, WAVs, AUs, MPEGs are data. Not executables.
At 07:56 PM 8/28/96 -0400, you wrote:
> If a virus is embedded into a giff ,is it executed when the giff is or
>does it require the usual overwriting etc methods to execute it?
> TIA
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