Slightly O/T, since djcross originally posted about TIFF’s, but …

Interesting, John. I was certain I’d seen, maybe a couple of years ago in some computer magazine or another, similar news out of CERT (I think that’s the right org. - “official” computer security?) that they’d made an interesting and potentially serious discovery in their labs.

They’d found that viruses and/or worms could be “piggybacked” onto JPG’s, which of course most a-v scanners will just ignore. My son told me I was crazy, since JPG’s essentially just a compression format, but I’m inclined to think the guys at CERT know a little more about such things than he does. :wink:

They did say, though, that they had no reason to believe it had ever been done except in their own labs.

Best,
Mike