A very interesting fact about image filesizes.

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Post by Blast!10 » Mon Nov 17, 2008 6:10 pm

I agree with ^.
Such codes can still make SOME sense though.

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BMÞ       6   (               ¨                   ÿÿÿÿÿÿ   ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ      ÿÿÿ         ÿÿÿ         ÿÿÿ   ÿÿÿ         ÿÿÿ   ÿÿÿ   ÿÿÿÿÿÿ   ÿÿÿÿÿÿ                     ÿÿÿ   ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ   ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ   
I guess a space means "white" and ÿ means "black".
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Post by mqdar » Mon Nov 17, 2008 7:13 pm

Muzozavr wrote:A file is simply some data that a program interprets. If you think you can coax the interpreting program into doing bad stuff -- well, good luck with that because you can't just stuff CMD in a file -- it won't run.
So is this why you get warnings about executables? That's the thing about executables. They simply execute everything in them. They don't even think about the consequences of their actions. :lol:
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Post by Muzozavr » Mon Nov 17, 2008 10:14 pm

Whoops, poor executables! :( Forgot them when making that definition of file.

An executable executes every processor-understandable command in them. If they meet an illegal command, they crash.
Other files are interpreted by executables, so... yeah, I guess you could THEORETICALLY make a JPG that formats your hard drive on opening, but that would be nigh impossibly hard.
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Post by duncan » Wed Nov 19, 2008 1:26 am

because we are talking about files, I just wanted to let you know so you have a heads up.




DO NOT open files from ANY email ect. that have anything to do with "Life is beautiful" it will say "Your life is no longer Beautiful" and will "KILL" you computer plus, the hacker who made this virus will get access to your name,email address,and password.this can not be killed by ANY virus blocker!
[size=0] [PS: if you call this fake, I will start flaming you and will not stop until you die of old age ect.[/size]
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Post by Qloof234 » Wed Nov 19, 2008 1:38 am

duncan wrote:PS: if you call this fake, I will start flaming you and will not stop until you die of old age ect.
what

Translation; You'll flame anyone who thinks it's not real until you're banned from the forum.

Besides, why would ANYONE on this forum make up something about a virus like that? It's already known that this forum take virus warnings like this seriously.

That's a harsh statement, and I don't think that it should even REMOTELY be allowed.

kthxbai

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Post by Muzozavr » Wed Nov 19, 2008 4:46 am

Qloof234 wrote:
duncan wrote:PS: if you call this fake, I will start flaming you and will not stop until you die of old age ect.
Besides, why would ANYONE make up something about a virus like that? It's already known that this forum take virus warnings like this seriously.
Surprise! They would!
While you DO have to be careful with e-mails, and NEVER EVER download attachments that you haven't expected, "Life is Beautiful" is a known fake. And before duncan starts flaming me, here's PROOF to make him unable to flame the topic:

http://www.hoax-slayer.com/life-is-beau ... -hoax.html
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Post by duncan » Wed Nov 19, 2008 12:54 pm

Qloof234 wrote:
duncan wrote:PS: if you call this fake, I will start flaming you and will not stop until you die of old age ect.
what

Translation; You'll flame anyone who thinks it's real until you're banned from the forum.

Besides, why would ANYONE make up something about a virus like that? It's already known that this forum take virus warnings like this seriously.

That's a harsh statement, and I don't think that it should even REMOTELY be allowed.

kthxbai
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Post by Qloof234 » Thu Nov 20, 2008 1:11 am

duncan wrote:
Qloof234 wrote:
duncan wrote:PS: if you call this fake, I will start flaming you and will not stop until you die of old age ect.
what

Translation; You'll flame anyone who thinks it's real until you're banned from the forum.

Besides, why would ANYONE make up something about a virus like that? It's already known that this forum take virus warnings like this seriously.

That's a harsh statement, and I don't think that it should even REMOTELY be allowed.

kthxbai
NO! IF YOU CALL IT FAKE!
Whoa, hold up. Read the rest of my post apart from the translation, you should be able to understand I made a mistake...

@ Muzo: ... or two. I meant to say anyone on this forum, oops. :oops:

I have a reason for the first one though, learning FSL (French *as a* Second Language) messes with my english, maybe I should hire an army of Grammar Nazis with the almighty Grammer Hammer :lol:

As for the second one, that was just a mistake, I go fix my post now.
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