First Flash Virus - It was bound to happen

[Jesse]

Here's an interesting article courtesy of ZDnet's mailing list (which is great for tech-heads!):
3. New virus first to infect Shockwave Flash Antivirus companies have warned PC users that future Shockwave Flash movies could carry malicious viruses and worms.
http://cgi.zdnet.com/slink?167299
Post your comments here.

[red penguin]

I found this article more informative than this (http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/articles/swflfm926.html) one posted by roele...
designers who use Flash animations to add pizzazz to their sites
heheh...is that what we do?

[Madokan]

I am really pissed off - because we all know that if you run an Flash Movie local in the Flash player you can call everything you want from it and even generate a virus.

But how should we explain this our clients - it will be hard piece of work.

yours
Matze K.

[Madokan]

Here we have another article on reuters - got that from guy watson :)

here (http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=internetnews&StoryID=501051)

So now decide yourself :)

yours
Matze K.

[red penguin]

I just like these quotes....makes me laugh how the industry perceives Flash...well, sometimes...
on glitzy Web sites

[20 Ton Squirrel]

Gosh, I've got oodles of downloaded SWFs. I'm fooked! Oh... no, wait... they don't say what the dern thing does beyond "infecting other files"

What's up with that, eh? What does it do beyond that??!

[Jesse]

Macromedia have posted a technote to reolve this issue apparently: http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/swf_clear.htm