| It's not a virus in a jpeg file, it's apparently a vulnerability in a program (IE?) that is affected by the jpegs it opens. The virus companies and the media are collaborating in scaremongering.
"PC users should note that they can't be infected by opening a JPEG image. Rather, a virus on an infected computer copies code
into a digital image and waits for the JPEG to get passed along to other infected systems. The virus on those systems will read the code fragment in the JPEG image and follow the instructions. Users who haven't been infected by the extractor virus can open an infected digital image and nothing will happen."
The article on Wired is much worse.
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