On 24 Dec 96, Geoff White wrote to chris evans --
 GW> chance that an infected phile can be made to say... an executable gif
 GW> file, and then infect when it is run?  IF so then i guess you could
 GW> say that gifs and jpgs etc could be virus carriers!!!!!
But the executable is not really a GIF or JPG anymore -- it's an EXE that
just happens to have picture data inside it.  That's almost like saying that
an infected self-extracting archive is the same as a normal archive with
infected files inside...
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