Hey guys! To those who really love pornographic materials be vigilant enough to watch you’re PC….
Hackers are using porn images posted on Usenet newsgroups to take advantage of the flaw in Microsoft programs regarding JPEGs. An overflow occurs in the GDI+ JPEG decoder from malicious code in the JPEG. The nickname for this is JPEG of Death.
The JPEG of Death tries to install Radmin which is a program which allows users to have remote access to their computers. However, in this instance, a Trojan Horse program controls the program. Computers infected by this report to an IRC channel.
The only OS affected so far is Windows XP. While this infection does not have the ability to spread like a virus, security experts fear that this exploit could be used to spread a worm. Antivirus programs currently can detect these corrupted JPEGs.
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