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jpeg virus	by whytwolf	2006-11-19 12:55:59
The bottom line:	by BlurOfSerenity	2002-06-14 09:21:18
But what if...	by Arcanum	2002-06-14 09:31:29
the OS is hacked so that it runs a data file as if it were an executable? I mean, they're all just 1s and 0s anyway. The only thing that matters is how they're interpreted. AFAIK, there's no reason that an OS couldn't be hacked so that it tries to execute certain data files (images, for instance). Then, if some real executable code (as opposed to the garbage code that the data would be seen as) gets embedded (in the right spot) in one of those data files and the file was opened, the OS would run the code.
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You just answered your own Q.	by Naruki	2002-06-14 09:34:45
Exactly.	by Kickstart	2002-06-14 10:28:00
However, you'd get a LOT of strange	by Naruki	2002-06-14 11:57:53
Unless they were infected by the virus too...	by Arcanum	2002-06-14 12:22:36
The OS doesn't have ot be hacked	by ToLazyToThink	2002-06-14 12:25:48
.eml != .txt	by tigermouse	2002-06-14 12:41:13
True	by wheresthefish	2002-06-14 12:56:41
In Windows 2000	by Arcanum	2002-06-14 13:05:54
Yes, but...	by ToLazyToThink	2002-06-14 13:26:42
Normally it prompts you, unless you	by Naruki	2002-06-14 13:33:01
The .exe extension is perfectly safe too	by ToLazyToThink	2002-06-14 14:36:04
Wordpad would have crapped out with	by i_am_pi	2002-06-14 13:26:34
mabye,	by ToLazyToThink	2002-06-14 14:44:46
It did infect your system when you clicked to	by i_am_pi	2002-06-14 14:59:18
Probably right	by ToLazyToThink	2002-06-14 15:10:30

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