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Video viruses?

Video viruses?

Linc

Lincoln Russell 3 Oct, 2007 at 10:09am ET Article published in Tech

Online video may become a conduit for viruses.

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3 Oct 2007 ~ 10:35am Thrax It's certainly possible. In many ways, most video files we see out there (Particularly .AVI, .FLV and .MKV) are just "Zip" files so to speak. Containers in which media is placed. WMV files are already capable of launching you to a website without your asking -- why stop there?

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