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cperezprg · June 5th, 2003

I agree. It's obvious that a video can be manipulated because it's data. But a Virus must be activated. It activates when you launch a .exe or with MS Office's Macros (due to a bug).

But in a video, it seems difficult. The only think I can imagine is that the videoplayer has a bug (like MS Office) and a virus can use it. But this is also rare, because a normal player is reading the information of the file and translating it to show the movie, not executing that information (like EXE or Macros).

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June 5th, 2003	#9 (permalink)
cperezprg Rainmaker Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Murcia, Spain (Europe) Posts: 129	I agree. It's obvious that a video can be manipulated because it's data. But a Virus must be activated. It activates when you launch a .exe or with MS Office's Macros (due to a bug). But in a video, it seems difficult. The only think I can imagine is that the videoplayer has a bug (like MS Office) and a virus can use it. But this is also rare, because a normal player is reading the information of the file and translating it to show the movie, not executing that information (like EXE or Macros). __________________ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pentium III 1Ghz, MSI GeoForce 4, Windows 2000 Pro Pete's OpenGl Driver 1.71 Internal ePSXe SPU or Pete's DSound 1.15 Internal ePSXe W2K CDR or SaPu's CD-ROM 1.0 Bios scph 7502