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“Experts at the SysAdmin Audit Network Security, or SANS, Institute said the virus is still in its infancy, with the institute having received only two reports of infection so far.
“It’s been done in the past, but with HTML code instead of the JPEG,” said Johannes Ullrich, chief technical officer for SANS’ Internet Storm Center, the organization’s online-security research unit. “It is a virus, but it didn’t spread very far. We’ve only had two reports of it.”
According to the Internet Storm Center, the victims received AOL Instant Messenger messages that directed them to Web sites that hosted the dangerous JPEG images.”