virus in video???? Help!!!!!!!

virus in video???? Help!!!!!!!
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virus in video???? Help!!!!!!! drewdini 08-07-2006
Posted by on August 7, 2006, 10:35 am
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Hey, I downloaded a video for a friend of mine, and He was playing it
in both of his computers at home, and now his parents are pissed at me
for screwing up there computers. they claim that now one of the
computers can not connect to the internet, and the other one is gettin
drive letters mixed up, etc. I told them I would go and take a look,
but before I do, I just wanted to know for sure, can there be a virus
in a video? This was a .avi video, and it worked fine on m,y computer.
If it is not a virus, could it be some kind of spyware? Is it at all
possible to screw up 2 computers just by playing a video? Thanks a lot
for your help.

Drew


Posted by Jim on August 7, 2006, 1:40 pm
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> Hey, I downloaded a video for a friend of mine, and He was playing it
> in both of his computers at home, and now his parents are pissed at me
> for screwing up there computers. they claim that now one of the
> computers can not connect to the internet, and the other one is gettin
> drive letters mixed up, etc. I told them I would go and take a look,
> but before I do, I just wanted to know for sure, can there be a virus
> in a video? This was a .avi video, and it worked fine on m,y computer.
> If it is not a virus, could it be some kind of spyware? Is it at all
> possible to screw up 2 computers just by playing a video? Thanks a lot
> for your help.
>
> Drew
>
Yes, it is possible to imbed malware in almost anything.

Why didn't their anti-viral software catch the stuff?

Jim



Posted by James Egan on August 7, 2006, 1:52 pm
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wrote:

>Yes, it is possible to imbed malware in almost anything.
>
>Why didn't their anti-viral software catch the stuff?
>

You are correct that the avi file might have embedded malware but
running that malware is a different matter entirely and you would need
some other malware to do it. It is almost certain therefore that any
problem was not caused by malware embedded in the avi file.


Jim.


Posted by on August 7, 2006, 2:12 pm
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If it is malware, and theit anti-virus did not catch it, how would be
the best way for me to remove it? Also, are thoes normaly sings of
malware?

Drew


Posted by James Egan on August 7, 2006, 3:11 pm
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On 7 Aug 2006 11:12:31 -0700, drewdini@gmail.com wrote:

>If it is malware, and theit anti-virus did not catch it, how would be
>the best way for me to remove it? Also, are thoes normaly sings of
>malware?
>
>Drew

There have been a few threads recently about malware embedded in
container files. Read this thread if you're interested.
http://groups.google.co.uk/group/alt.comp.virus/browse_thread/thread/0d6faf59ba774826/5b186d1f02727dec?&hl=en#5b186d1f02727dec
or shorter link
http://tinyurl.com/pvhc8

Personally I wouldn't worry about it.


Jim.


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