What an interesting title i bet your all thinking My question is can video files contain worms/viruses/trojans and if so how are they binded with the video and what sort of program would someone go about using to do it???
Well a minute ago I would have said no, but leave it to it to Bill G to screw it up. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1749993,00.asp
yeah but in this article it is when you need to download a license for a file thanks for your response but i was wondering if it can be tied in with the file and executed upon downloading or trying to open in a player???
There are no .exe in a video file. The problem has been when programs like Winamp (MP3) go online to get info. Thats why I always say no when a program wants to auto search for info.
i downloaded a file from limewire that was video and once i opened it i was infected. After searching for the file on google i found it but there was only one site that talked about it and it is a file that is spread through P2P. But after reading more i also found that it infects through fake files now the only files i have been downloading lately are media files no music just video. What it did was made my computer run slow and when i left my computer for a while everytime i came back there would be a flash application running and everything but the start menu would be showing and it jsut bassically said on it "xbox things will never be the same 2001" which i found odd. i checked the running processes and it was called xbox.exe thats how i found the information. I have cleared the infection now because my pc is now running fine. But at the time what worried me was how no protection programs and scanner i ran could pick it up???
That's a simple trick, you use a binder to stick a trojan, worm or other piece of malware into a jpeg, avi, or whatever other filetype you can think of. Most proper AntiViruS softwares will pick up such "infected" files, so if your AVS didn't find it, it must have been either a really new piece of malware, or you didn't update your AVS properly, OR te AVS you used at that time was cr@p.
