Phantom Orchid Posted February 14, 2010 Report Share Posted February 14, 2010 It has come to my attention that there _was_ a trojan in my personal papers - from a picture file oro2.jpg I downloaded from the internet. I am technologically challenged - to put it politely - but I think this should be resolved since I deleted the file from my papers _and_ from userfiles storage. But just in case it might possibly cause trouble still, I wanted to let folks know about it... For those who are more tech-savvy, is there anything else I should do? *runs off to buy antivirus software* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apophys Posted February 14, 2010 Report Share Posted February 14, 2010 (edited) Get AVG antivirus free, if you don't already have antivirals. If you destroyed all copies, it should be gone, as long as it didn't spread or something. Edited February 14, 2010 by apophys Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Master Posted February 14, 2010 Report Share Posted February 14, 2010 I still can't understand how you could have gotten a trojan INSIDE a .jpg file ?!?! Did you use a special encoding for it ? Was it like a add spam picture with something else than just the picture ? Watcher and Totenkopf 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I am Bored Posted February 14, 2010 Report Share Posted February 14, 2010 there is only one virus that is able to hide in a jpg file, and that is prevented from working by every modern image viewer..... unless the jpg image was also another file type, as i have seen .jpg images that were also .torrent files.... still don't know how they did that, because it showed the instructions in the image..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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