Warning: Petting Zoo Demo Virus

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Dec 23 2002, 12:10 am (Edited on Dec 23 2002, 12:19 am)
Make sure not to download Green Lime's Petting Zoo demo. It contains a virus. Pass this on.

EDIT: Thanks Dogman. Wasn't thinking. :P
Dec 23 2002, 12:12 am
I advise you change the topic of your post to "Warning: Petting Zoo Demo Virus".
People dont like all Caps Topics, or in your case all but one caps.
-DogMan
Dec 23 2002, 12:44 am
In response to Dog Man
Just a quick lesson on viruses:

Any file has the capacity to contain a comnputer virus. The file may be enlarged or corrupted or there might be garbled text in it or whatever.

Only an executable coded in a specific language can transmit a virus. The executable is infected and the virus code is added to it. The virus code might overwrite all your pictures with porn or whatever. The executable must be written in a powerful language for it to pose a virus threat ie. HTML doesn't have the capacity to contain a virus but JAVA does.
As far as I know, DM isn't a virus threat as it cannot edit files on your PC without you giving it permission.
Dec 23 2002, 12:49 am
In response to Hazman
Hazman wrote:
Just a quick lesson on viruses:

Any file has the capacity to contain a comnputer virus. >The file may be enlarged or corrupted or there might be >garbled text in it or whatever.

Only an executable coded in a specific language can >transmit a virus. The executable is infected and the virus >code is added to it. The virus code might overwrite all >your pictures with porn or whatever. The executable must >be written in a powerful language for it to pose a virus >threat ie. HTML doesn't have the capacity to contain a >virus but JAVA does.
As far as I know, DM isn't a virus threat as it cannot >edit files on your PC without you giving it permission.

Ah, well the reason I posted was I was kind of worried about peeps without good Virus protections, that's all.
Dec 23 2002, 1:04 am
In response to Tiko587
'K
Dec 23 2002, 8:30 am
In response to Hazman
Not true, the newest viruses can infect your computer even by rolling your curser over an icon, tech tv was warning about it being in mp3's.
Dec 23 2002, 9:04 am
In response to Scoobert
Scoobert wrote:
Not true, the newest viruses can infect your computer even by rolling your curser over an icon, tech tv was warning about it being in mp3's.

Strictly speaking this is a mistaken analysis.

There is an exploit in Windows XP that apparently allows malicious code to execute from mousing over a media file, but this isn't any inherent capability of a virus; rather it's a bug in the OS's ancillary software. As far as I know, no virus yet exploits this.

Lummox JR