Comments on: Spyware Hiding in Online Media Files

By: Nagan

Nagan — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 01:53:21 +0000

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By: martinelli

martinelli — Thu, 13 Jan 2005 16:09:52 +0000

How amusing! So if I’m not a music or movie thief, I still have to worry about going to some place like “Stupid Videos” and having my computer infected just because I watched a home movie of some person’s cat falling in a mud puddle. From the “JPEG of Death” to the “DRM of Insanity”. Enjoy!

No longer apologize for Microsoft for they are lame.

By the way, this exploit was discovered and implemented by a company hired by the RIAA to poison the P2P network. Yet another reason why “full disclosure” of exploits must not be suppressed. It’s not just the criminals we have to worry about, but corrupt corporations and governments as well. The exploits don’t go away just because the end user doesn’t know about them, they just get repurposed as adware, spyware and espionage vectors.

If you can’t demand they be fixed then you suffer their existance and continued exploitation by these types.

By: anonymoose

anonymoose — Wed, 12 Jan 2005 20:23:14 +0000

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By: Lockergnome's Net Patrol

Lockergnome's Net Patrol — Wed, 12 Jan 2005 10:08:32 +0000

Spyware Hiding in Online Media Files
As if online downloaders don’t have enough to worry about (rightly or wrongly), now they have to worry about spyware being buried within the media files they download. I don’t think this is what Marshall McLuhan had in mind. According…