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Old 06-18-2002, 11:42 PM  
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Originally posted by michaelw
thats not as scary as it sounds..

i once was infected with a trojan that did the same thing - it would open itself whenever a exe was opened because the trojan added some stuff to the registry telling it to launch the program when a exe is loaded.

all this virus does is replace exe with jpg (perhaps making it less dangerous)

by sending a "infected" jpg to another person, nothing will happen unless they opened the original exe which adds stuff to the registry
This is all simply a case of media hype & people not reading between the lines, or having the ability to.
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