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Avast Caution Potential Infection Was Detected: Suspicious whitespace sequence
I often get the WinXP Avast verbal warning when downloading usenet photos:
Caution: Potential Infection Was Detected: Suspicious whitespace sequence What is a "suspicious whitespace sequence" in a digital JPEG photograph? Can I download the usenet photo and "see" the suspicous whitespace sequence? Is it really a virus? If not, what? donnie |
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Avast Caution Potential Infection Was Detected: Suspicious whitespace sequence
donnie wrote:
I often get the WinXP Avast verbal warning when downloading usenet photos: Caution: Potential Infection Was Detected: Suspicious whitespace sequence What is a "suspicious whitespace sequence" in a digital JPEG photograph? Can I download the usenet photo and "see" the suspicous whitespace sequence? Is it really a virus? If not, what? donnie Most likely the program is objecting to the HTML (text) content from the Web server rather than any image content. David |
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Avast Caution Potential Infection Was Detected: Suspicious whitespacesequence
donnie wrote:
I often get the WinXP Avast verbal warning when downloading usenet photos: Caution: Potential Infection Was Detected: Suspicious whitespace sequence What is a "suspicious whitespace sequence" in a digital JPEG photograph? Delimiters Can I download the usenet photo and "see" the suspicous whitespace sequence? Yeah with an editor that can read the file and display it in a binary format. Is it really a virus? No If not, what? Your friend Google will tell you. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q...&btnG=Sea rch |
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Avast Caution Potential Infection Was Detected: Suspicious whitespace sequence
donnie wrote:
I often get the WinXP Avast verbal warning when downloading usenet photos: Caution: Potential Infection Was Detected: Suspicious whitespace sequence Isn't this the security whole in Windows graphics that could make binary code inside a picture execute on the system if a fault happened? Maybe that is what it is warning you about? I have used avast! for several years and NEVER seen that message, so I would be very careful with those images if I were you. Suspicious... -- Lars-Erik - http://www.osterud.name - ICQ 7297605 |
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Avast Caution Potential Infection Was Detected: Suspicious whitespace sequence
Lars-Erik Østerud wrote:
donnie wrote: I often get the WinXP Avast verbal warning when downloading usenet photos: Caution: Potential Infection Was Detected: Suspicious whitespace sequence Isn't this the security whole in Windows graphics that could make binary code inside a picture execute on the system if a fault happened? Maybe that is what it is warning you about? Good point - many pieces of software may have such faults as they may be derived from common libraries. I have used avast! for several years and NEVER seen that message, so I would be very careful with those images if I were you. Suspicious... Doesn't "whitespace" suggest the HTML code, though? David |
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Avast Caution Potential Infection Was Detected: Suspicious whitespace sequence
On Sun, 25 Mar 2007 12:55:15 GMT, David J Taylor wrote:
I have used avast! for several years and NEVER seen that message, so I would be very careful with those images if I were you. Suspicious... Doesn't "whitespace" suggest the HTML code, though? It could also suggest a reserved block used for EXIF comments. Perhaps the EXIF data could be stripped from the photo to see if it would then get by the Avast security check. |
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Avast Caution Potential Infection Was Detected: Suspicious whitespacesequence
donnie wrote:
I often get the WinXP Avast verbal warning when downloading usenet photos: Caution: Potential Infection Was Detected: Suspicious whitespace sequence What is a "suspicious whitespace sequence" in a digital JPEG photograph? Can I download the usenet photo and "see" the suspicous whitespace sequence? Is it really a virus? If not, what? donnie Maybe it's this? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitesp...mming_language) -- Sue Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we are here we might as well dance. Unknown |
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Avast Caution Potential Infection Was Detected: Suspicious whitespace sequence
In donnie
wrote: What is a "suspicious whitespace sequence" in a digital JPEG photograph? Can I download the usenet photo and "see" the suspicous whitespace sequence? From what I've read the warning is about suspicious spaces in the filename, not the image. Some folks send executables with many spaces in the name, in hopes that the ".exe" extension will be missed by the downloader. -- Bert Hyman St. Paul, MN |
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Avast Caution Potential Infection Was Detected: Suspicious whitespace sequence
In rec.photo.digital donnie wrote:
I often get the WinXP Avast verbal warning when downloading usenet photos: Caution: Potential Infection Was Detected: Suspicious whitespace sequence What is a "suspicious whitespace sequence" in a digital JPEG photograph? Can I download the usenet photo and "see" the suspicous whitespace sequence? Is it really a virus? If not, what? The problem is the filename ... and that fact that Avast is very cheap. If you really want good coverage and fast performance, consider NOD32 from http://www.eset.com -- Thomas T. Veldhouse Key Fingerprint: D281 77A5 63EE 82C5 5E68 00E4 7868 0ADC 4EFB 39F0 |
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Avast Caution Potential Infection Was Detected: Suspicious whitespacesequence
Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote:
In donnie wrote: I often get the WinXP Avast verbal warning when downloading usenet photos: Caution: Potential Infection Was Detected: Suspicious whitespace sequence .... The problem is ...that Avast is very cheap. Fatally flawed argument, Thomas. Apache is free as well but your internet experience depends on it everyday. The cost of Avast is fine and, if you look at comparative AV tests, so is its effectiveness which, really, is what matters. Doesn't it? If you really want good coverage and fast performance, consider NOD32 from http://www.eset.com/afinebut$$$ware Y.a. fine option but, happily, OT for our group. -Craig |
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