Seems the virus writers getting smarter and smarter by the day new a virus that use`s shockwave so whats next?
The caution came after an unknown virus writer sent just such an infectious program to U.K. antivirus company Sophos. Dubbed SWF/LFM-926, the new program does little but infect Flash files on a PC when the movie is played.
"It's really a proof of concept, as opposed to something that you should lie awake at night worrying about," said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant for the Abingdon, England, company. "But whenever a new vulnerability like this is found, other copycats tend to create more malicious variants."
The SWF/LFM-926 should mainly be a concern to Web site designers who use Flash animations to add pizzazz to their sites, Cluley said. Shockwave Flash, created by digital media company Macromedia, is typically used on sites to add interactive user interfaces and multimedia presentations.
"Ninety-nine-point-nine percent of the time, people play Flash movies from the Web in their browser," said Pete Santangeli, vice president of engineering for Flash at the San Francisco company. "That's completely safe."
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Source: Cnet
