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Originally posted by Gamer1
yes it's possible, you can put a virus over anything.
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Viruses need to be executed for them to do anything and as such, they need to be in an executable file. It's like a game or application. You need to run the executable to make them work or even do anything. But as JNS stated viruses can be executed if the input file were to cause a buffer overflow and write the code into memory. However, as he also stated the chances of that are extremely small. The virus coder would have to know the exact input buffer size of the player, otherwise it won't do anything. I agree with JNS, the anti-virus program is probably just messing up. There is some genuine code that look like a virus (programs that overwrite drivers or OS files or do other potentially dangerous things) but it's not really a virus.
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