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Trojan horse steals ICQ users' identities

4:42:14 pm mst / 10 January 2001 found by paul / filed in security / source CNet 120 hits / 3 comments / 0 e-mails

Hundreds of ICQ users have found their ID numbers and passwords stolen as a result of a Trojan horse program disguised as a JPEG image file. The smaller numbers (from the earliest users) are considered the most desirable.

Not as bad as scalping low numbers in a delicatessen, but nearly so...

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thanks for the correction by diana 1:06:09 pm mst / 14 January 2001 / # 3 / reply to # 2

Thanks for the correction. I have edited the story. You can be sure that Paul will be flogged nightly for the next week or so for such a silly error.

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Peter Hickman by MysteriousStranger 4:09:10 am mst / 12 January 2001 / # 2

The opening paragraph is complete bullshit. The JPEG file CANNOT (let me state this again - CONNOT) contain a program! If you go to the article it was from a trojan that that was being passed off as a JPEG. I can only hope that no one reads your site as this sort of crap is very hard to remove from the minds of non techies. Thanks a lot.

Trojan in a "JPEG" ? by T_Rex_212 7:35:45 am mst / 11 January 2001 / # 1

I wonder how this came about, as the specs I have read for JPEG indicate there is no executable code in the JPEG format. Has this changed, or was it an executable file masquerading as a JPEG?

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