Happy Veterans Day!

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

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[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

[xforge.livejournal.com]

Your image has a virus in it.

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

[image of a man facepalming, with the text "oh god, THIS THREAD SUCKS" deleted, apparently it has a virus]

[moderndayhippie.livejournal.com]

yeah, i usually like the cartoons you post. But this one? not so much. maybe I'm just being sensitive.

[yes-justice.livejournal.com]

Its funny because its true, oh wait...

[moderndayhippie.livejournal.com]

I guess I just think it is in poor taste to use disabled veterans to get a jab in at the President. I didn't think it was funny.

[yes-justice.livejournal.com]

This particular presidents actions have done a lot worse than just poor taste to soldiers and veterans, so I can see a dark humor in such a jab.

Ever been to a Veterans for Peace (http://www.veteransforpeace.org/) meeting? Its mis-named. It should be named Veterans for be-heading the government.

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

What he said. This administration has taken a big sloppy dump all over soldiers' and veterans' benefits, all while cowering under the umbrella of "support the troops, you dirty librul!"

[rubyspirit.livejournal.com]

War sucks ... especially meaningless, fabricated ones.

[tbonestg.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Saddam was such a nice guy. If only we could have more rulers around the world like him...

[tbonestg.livejournal.com]

Well, Stalin was pretty good at killing Communists...

[terminator44.livejournal.com]

For a while, he actually was. Until he got greedy and invaded Kuwait, that is.

[anfalicious.livejournal.com]

We do, what makes them so different to Saddam?

Sorry, the "we had to, Saddam was nasty!" argument holds about as much water as a sieve.

[reality-hammer.livejournal.com]

Despicable cartoon....

Which has a virus.

[xforge.livejournal.com]

The virus is attached to jlc20thmaine's image. Which figures, since it's an a-hole response.

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

How the hell does an image have a virus attached to it?

[xforge.livejournal.com]

Not sure but it's pretty common. You usually see it in pictures of nekkid girlz, where the pic has a downloader embedded in it and then that fills your HD with useless bullcrap.

[theomni.livejournal.com]

I still don't understand. An image isn't an executed file. How does that work?

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

Some browser exploit, I'd assume.

[adudeabides.livejournal.com]

I didn't see the image in question, but I believe they're talking about this (http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS04-028.mspx).

Clarification:

1. It's not a virus. It's actually a trojan downloader. (Meaning it has no ability to spread on its own.)

2. It only affects users with Windows XP Service Pack 1.

3. It does not automatically execute on reading the message. The JPG must be saved into a local folder, then the mouse pointer must be moved over the JPG file's icon.

4. The file is detected by all major antivirus engines with current virus definition files. Because of the nature of the JPG format, it is impossible to disguise an infected JPG file. So current signatures should detect ALL future attempts to exploit this vulnerability.

[neonleonb.livejournal.com]

I think there was a bug where some Windows image format (not JPG or PNG or GIF or anything standard) was handled by Windows directly, and the Windows code had a bug that would execute part of the image, so any time any program loaded one, it could get your computer to do something. Yes, it's crazy, but well, that's Windows for you.

[adudeabides.livejournal.com]

I didn't see the image in question, but I believe they're talking about this (http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS04-028.mspx).

Clarification:

1. It's not a virus. It's actually a trojan downloader. (Meaning it has no ability to spread on its own.)

2. It only affects users with Windows XP Service Pack 1.

3. It does not automatically execute on reading the message. The JPG must be saved into a local folder, then the mouse pointer must be moved over the JPG file's icon.

4. The file is detected by all major antivirus engines with current virus definition files. Because of the nature of the JPG format, it is impossible to disguise an infected JPG file. So current signatures should detect ALL future attempts to exploit this vulnerability.

[adudeabides.livejournal.com]

I didn't see the image in question, but I believe they're talking about this (http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS04-028.mspx).

Clarification:

1. It's not a virus. It's actually a trojan downloader. (Meaning it has no ability to spread on its own.)

2. It only affects users with Windows XP Service Pack 1.

3. It does not automatically execute on reading the message. The JPG must be saved into a local folder, then the mouse pointer must be moved over the JPG file's icon.

4. The file is detected by all major antivirus engines with current virus definition files. Because of the nature of the JPG format, it is impossible to disguise an infected JPG file. So current signatures should detect ALL future attempts to exploit this vulnerability.

[xforge.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the research. If the downloader had been allowed to do its job, it could've brought a whole world of craptaculosity on someone. And there are tons of folks out there who have auto-updating turned off, and what it says in (3) could happen pretty easily, and there are a disturbing number of people running weak or no virus protection.

The real point of course is, did the poster know it's infected and post it on purpose?

[adudeabides.livejournal.com]

You're welcome. It's important to curb the spread as best as possible; remote administration tools are one of the things downloaded as a result of this exploit, which opens up a host of other possibilities for mayhem.

As far as intent...I couldn't answer that. I hope it's unintentional.

[zombiesmustdie.livejournal.com]

ban?

Being only a messenger

[slavezombie.livejournal.com]

Shocking. Even I think so, and I never served in the military. But, remember that first love you held feelings for, with a tendency to marry? I can see how somebody would be willing to join for enough to get a decent education and still remain with his high school sweetheart. Otherwise, there's two kinds of students: streetwise and nerdy. Being the nerdy student doesn't get you the sweetheart and being the student with the popular cheerleader doesn't get you squat. Catch-22 was funny too, and I haven't even read it yet.

Bad one.

[groundbyground.livejournal.com]

Meh. It's a voluntary enlistment, and you really would have to be a fool to go in and not think you're at risk. We've been at it for 8 years now, so it's virtually nil chance that anyone would be serving without understanding the nature of service and sacrifice. So, the cartoon isn't even really about the military, and poorly aimed at Bush in general.

A woman in the kitchen barefoot and pregnant with her fifth kid, asking her son to hand her the phone to thank Bush for the abstinence education, would be more on target.