It's a myth. An anti-virus company with a vested interest in keeping us all
scared somehow received an example of a virus that as yet is not known to
be "in the wild", i.e. infecting anyone's computer.
*If* your computer is *already* infected by this particular virus, it will
read information from JPEG files.
JPEGs are data files and *cannot* contain a virus in their own right. This
virus or any other cannot be transmitted by a JPEG alone.
See
http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid14_gci833434,00.html
for more information.
I am most annoyed that PC User are circulating a story that emerged in June
without looking into it more carefully.
See the Virus Myths site at www.vmyths.com for a critical look at viruses
and how the anti-virus industry operates.
Cheers
Paul Foxworthy
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