Can you really get a trojan in an image file and if so how will it be executed?
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Mar 15, 202612533 viewsConfidence Score0%
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I've just digitized a couple of LPs and needed some cover art. My scanner isn't big enough to scan the album so I searched for and downloaded the images off the net. When I did so Avast reported that one of them contained the "Win32:Hupigon-ONX" trojan and immediately quarantined it. Not wishing to…
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Exploits in image files take advantage of buffer overrun flaws in the image processing code of the OS. There were several significant such flaws found in Windows' GDI layer a couple of years ago - patches were released long ago but exploit images ar…
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