2006-08-17 04:24:21 · 5 answers · asked by river24maya 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
Recently shown flaw in windows graphics infastructure allowed execution of a program. And if that can happen, stuff hidden i nthe picture could be extracted, and ran technicaly.
Anything can be infexted if a application preforms specific steps to look for, and access such code in the everyday mediatype it handles.
While microsofts problem (which has been fixed) is known. A up and coming image viewing for example, can have coded in, to look for somethign in a image at a certian point in that file (all in code mumbo jumbo). If it finds it, it handles it a certian way. Such as re-assembly, and execution of a virus if certian system conditions are met. Be it processing power, file content and soforth.
2006-08-17 04:42:43 · answer #1 · answered by kool_rock_ski_stickem 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
YES,
I ever hear the picture file can inject by GDI (or something) script, it makes you get BSOD (Blue Screen Of Death) then it send your data to someone website.
There's no perfect security in the internet
2006-08-17 11:40:57 · answer #2 · answered by DOZ 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes
2006-08-17 11:35:39 · answer #3 · answered by gingben 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there can be errant code embedded in it yes
2006-08-17 11:30:02 · answer #4 · answered by jeff s 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes.
2006-08-17 11:28:27 · answer #5 · answered by nuwanusa 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋