[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia Virus Protection

Tue Dec 14 23:12:12 UTC 2004

Doug Fraser (fraserdw at xtra.co.nz) [041215 09:55]:

> An even greater concern to me is the JPEG GDI+ Buffer Overrun exploit 
> This problem isn't just academic; at [[Vandalism in Progress]] a user 
> recently reported getting a JPEG GDI+ exploit warning flag from his 
> software firewall, pointing to a Wikimedia address. Maybe a false alarm, 
> but who knows?
> What do people have to say about this issue? Are my concerns unfounded? (I 
> want to re-iterate that I'm new to the list, so apologies if this has all 
> been covered already.)

Presumably virus scanning on uploads would be not too hard to implement.
(Is something like this, ClamAV or similar, in place for the mail server?)
And maybe a background scan running over the rest of the media databases.

- d.