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How do viruses work that are embedded in picture files

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iapetus

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Not the JPEG virus - that doesn't actually propagate through JPEGs, just uses them to store data. You need to be infected already for the images to have any effect.

The PNG problem is a buffer overflow, I believe, but as far as I know hasn't been exploited yet.
 
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