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offline pomme de terre from obscure body in the SK System on 2002-12-19 07:38 [#00485700]
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Check it out, theives...

;)

 

offline Ceri JC from Jefferson City (United States) on 2002-12-19 07:56 [#00485706]
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Smart, I'd encounterted a worm that duplicated MP3s to fill
the hard disk before, bu not these.

I'm suprised enough malicious code fits in the ID2 tags... I
would of imagined it'd need to reference a website etc. for
the rest of the code.

Still, my MP3 CD player is safe :P

 

offline Laserbeak from Netherlands, The on 2002-12-19 08:04 [#00485708]
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thanks for mentioning this, I will download the patches

 

offline Inverted Whale from United States Minor Outlying Islands on 2002-12-19 08:07 [#00485709]
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id3v2 is free-format - there's no fixed length like 1d3v1.

There was already a similar problem in Winamp a few months
ago, it's too bad they didn't completely fix it back then.

Considering there are probably a lot of vulnerable players
out there, this could be new attack vector for the anti-file
sharing folks.


 

offline Ceri JC from Jefferson City (United States) on 2002-12-19 08:33 [#00485727]
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Erk, didn't realise that. Thanks Whale...

Sorry I haven't joined the file sharing community yet, but I
don't have home net access till mid-Jan :(


 

offline kluizenaar from Netherlands Antilles on 2002-12-19 08:43 [#00485734]
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virus is defenitely a product of the established
record-industry,.they'll never win tho,.


 

offline Inverted Whale from United States Minor Outlying Islands on 2002-12-19 09:41 [#00485764]
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No problem Ceri JC ... hope to see you around soon!

 

offline str_ph from Cambridge (United Kingdom) on 2002-12-19 09:45 [#00485769]
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it's a trojan more than virus - isn't it ?

 

offline Inverted Whale from United States Minor Outlying Islands on 2002-12-19 09:48 [#00485775]
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Neither. It's a software flaw that would allow code of any
kind to be run on your computer without your knowledge.


 

offline str_ph from Cambridge (United Kingdom) on 2002-12-19 09:54 [#00485779]
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an exploit so ?!?!

hehe listening to A Giant Alien Force... the end is vey
apocalyptic. I wonder if it's some kind of virus too this
music.



 

offline death-pengwin from Medicine Hat (Canada) on 2002-12-19 13:33 [#00486000]
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crazy

 

offline steve from chicago on 2002-12-19 13:54 [#00486024]
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Thanks. Fortunately I don't have any tags on my mp3s, and
pretty much stopped downloading/trading them.


 

offline flea from depths of your mind (New Zealand) on 2002-12-19 15:20 [#00486111]
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I have been hangin on to my Winamp2.78..and now it pays off
hooray:)


 

offline bryce_berny from chronno (Canada) on 2002-12-19 15:20 [#00486112]
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winamp 2.78 is vulnerable

 

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