trying not to be technical Excecuting a program involves putting commands into the CPU. Move data such as a GIF or a JPEG is not anywhere near the same. GIF, JPEGs, TIFFs, WAVs, AUs, MPEGs are data. Not executables. At 07:56 PM 8/28/96 -0400, you wrote:

If a virus is embedded into a giff ,is it executed when the giff is or does it require the usual overwriting etc methods to execute it? TIA