Virus-infected amvs

Lyrs · Post by **Lyrs** » Mon Mar 24, 2003 7:56 pm

Have you guys found or dl'ed any?

I use Norton anti-virus and the software told me that one of my amvs had a virus. The virus was not there previously and the only thing that i dl to my pc are amv's. maybe it was my email or something else. anyway, i my software was able to destory the virus and ihad to redl' the amv.

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burntoast · Post by **burntoast** » Mon Mar 24, 2003 8:01 pm

i never got any bad stuff from my dl'ed amvs, but i use Kazaa Lite to d/l a few of 'em. it may cause sum probs in the future..

i hardly ever scan my files for viruses, and luckily i had no infections whatsoever.

kmv · Post by **kmv** » Mon Mar 24, 2003 8:23 pm

I think you got a false positive. I'm not aware of any viruses that can infect move files and such a beast is very unlikely.

Flash "movies" are another story however. This is an overflow based exploit for .SWF floating around for versions pre January IIRC.

It is a move right? It not something that calls itself a movie but has an executable extension instead (.exe, .vbs, .pif, ...) is it?

Anime Jedi · Post by **Anime Jedi** » Mon Mar 24, 2003 9:58 pm

I don't think it has ever happened to me. I have gotten virusses before, but I'm not sure how. So there may just be a chance... o_0

Lyrs · Post by **Lyrs** » Tue Mar 25, 2003 8:33 am

kmv wrote:I think you got a false positive. I'm not aware of any viruses that can infect move files and such a beast is very unlikely.

Flash "movies" are another story however. This is an overflow based exploit for .SWF floating around for versions pre January IIRC.

It is a move right? It not something that calls itself a movie but has an executable extension instead (.exe, .vbs, .pif, ...) is it?

It was a .mpeg, or at least that's waht the file said.

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Bushido Philosopher · Post by **Bushido Philosopher** » Tue Mar 25, 2003 9:33 am

keiichi87 wrote:i hardly ever scan my files for viruses, and luckily i had no infections whatsoever.

....that you know of anyway.

It's rather hard for an AMV to have a virus since it's a video format. You only have to be worried if it's an exexcutable or a document since those are the files that make up the virus (in most cases, not all)

Ashyukun · Post by **Ashyukun** » Tue Mar 25, 2003 9:46 am

It -is- possible to embed code to open up web pages and such if you're viewing things with WiMP, but I don't think you have to worry about it if you're using something else, like ZoomPlayer...

kmv · Post by **kmv** » Tue Mar 25, 2003 11:11 am

Agreed, but I think even that will only work with MP3 (well anything with an ID3 tag actually) and WMF. So the MPEG should be fine.

Related side note: it was an overflow condition in the ID3 tags the prompted the 2.81 patch for WinAmp.

kmv · Post by **kmv** » Tue Mar 25, 2003 11:13 am

Just out of interest... which virus did it claim was infecting it?

AbsoluteDestiny · Post by **AbsoluteDestiny** » Tue Mar 25, 2003 12:27 pm

kmv wrote:Just out of interest... which virus did it claim was infecting it?

maybe it detected Linkin Ball Z syndrome