First, the HAZ-MAT is a polymorphic virus. It is not run by any data file (GIF, JPG or otherwise). Second. I had a private message sentto me from someone who suffered at the hands of this virus and described the effects. From the description it indicates the use of a possible boot or hidden sector residency with low level ATA-3 command capability to zap IDE drives. This is nothing new, or magical. Third. The HAZ-MAT virus has been documented to have been transported via a rogue copy of EudoraPro in zip format, plus one other EXE (non-image application). This is not spam, just facts... On Sun, 1 Sep 1996, kickboxer wrote:
I do not know how it is run by the JPG and GIF files, but I do know that the code somehow loads into the image viewer itself..I am not sure how it works, just that it is very destructive.. I had it destroy my 486 (using Lview Pro) Oh, well, ENOUGH already. if you have something to say that is related to "image files cant execute a virus" please do not. there are too many spams with those ideas out now