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[smckillop]

From Kaspersky Labs http://www.kaspersky...ws?id=148515536

Here's a tidbit

Kaspersky Labs, a leading information security software developer has detected a mass mailing of a new Trojan named Agent. Agent infects victim machines when users view graphics in BMP format.

Agent exploits a vulnerability in MS Internet Explorer versions 5.0 and 5.5 which allows malicious code to be launched on victim machines via modified BMP files. This vulnerability is a direct result of the Windows source code leak and was first detected on February 16, 2004.

Probably old news for some but I thought it may interest others here.

[dave38]

MS Internet Explorer versions 5.0 and 5.5

That's the important point, right there!
Both those versions of IE are well past their sell-by date. Yet another reason to urge updates on any infected machine.

[Man_Beach]

If this is the same thing, then I don't think that I've got too many worries in continuing to use IE5 -

TrojanDownloader.BMP.Agent.a

This TrojanDownloader expolits a vulnerability in MS Windows accessible during viewing BMP files.

To date Agent only affects Russian versions of MS Windows 2000.

Agent may cause email clients to close on other versions of Windows or in other operating systems.

Agent launches the UrlDownloadToFileA function and downloads another Trojan, Backdoor.Throd.a from the a1qwertya1.biz.ly site. Throd is saved on the c drive as \sys.exe and launched.



http://www.viruslist...html?id=1503649

[dave38]

bojemoi!

[wawadave]

one more picture exploit!

[Bladeoz]

ever since around 1995 - I thought that image files were an issue... I've always thought that they could harbour viruses - let alone spyware and other little buggers :S Am I wrong?

(**probably eh?? LMFAO**)

[Tuxedo Jack]

There used to be an old JPEG virus hoax way back when... oh, well. At least any computer sold these days comes with IE6.

Of course, if you're using a _real_ browser such as Firefox, you won't have this problem.

And who uploads .BMP files anyways? JPGs and PNGs are so much less space-consuming.