Image virus spreads via chat | CNET News.com: "A virus that exploits the recently discovered JPEG vulnerability has been discovered spreading over America Online's instant-messaging program.
Experts at the SysAdmin Audit Network Security, or SANS, Institute said the virus is still in its infancy, with the institute having received only two reports of infection so far.
'It's been done in the past, but with HTML code instead of the JPEG,' said Johannes Ullrich, chief technical officer for SANS' Internet Storm Center, the organization's online-security research unit. 'It is a virus, but it didn't spread very far. We've only had two reports of it.' "
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