by randall » Apr 7, 2002 @ 8:47pm
Yeah, basically what Paul said. The most a fucked up image file could do is crash the program- but that app would have to be a pile of crap to not recognise an invalid format.
Macro viruses are pretty damn funny- just as pitiful as those BAT file viruses.
When a virus has already infected a computer, certain strains will go through and wreak havoc on multimedia files. Like clicking the image will convert it to an invalid file (destroying the content) instead of opening it like it is supposed to.
Unless it converts it to an executable (with the extention) like Paul said, it can't do much. Why are we even discussing this?