Virus Guy <Virus@Guy.com> wrote in news:50773BB1.38D8AAE6@Guy.com:

> It it even possible that when launched from a media-player (such as
> VLC) that there exists a class of avi, mp3, flac (etc) malware that
> can leverage a player vulnerability and cause it to run arbitrary
> code?

Yes.

Some specific players could be tricked into visiting a maliciously formed
website embedded in the id3tags. Others could execute code embedded in
those tags. This shouldn't still be an issue tho.




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