Exploit.JPG What is it?

[Briguy]

I had my brother put AVG on his computer and I had him run a scan with all the settings for scan everything set. It didn't find anything. Then when opening some picture viewer software which shows the jpg's in thumbnail mode avg comes up with a Virus threat detected Exploit.JPG. It's only a couple of pictures out of the total that they have. They ripped these pictures from a cd that one of their friend's put together on their computer. Is it possible that AVG does not see it unless it is accssed by the viewer? Is it piggybacking on the jpg and does not see it until it runs? What is it and how do you get rid of it?

He's running Windows Vista. And is up to date. 

[Geek-9pm]

Get rid of the pictures.
-- OR --
View the pictures in FireFox.
The exploit becomes active when you try to view the file in some viewers. That was fixed, but it seems that you have a JPG that has the infection. Do you want to save the pictures? You can load then in a photo editor that is immune and then make a trivial change to the picture and save it. The Image program should write a good copy over the original file.

[Briguy]

Get rid of the pictures.
-- OR --
View the pictures in FireFox.
The exploit becomes active when you try to view the file in some viewers. That was fixed, but it seems that you have a JPG that has the infection. Do you want to save the pictures? You can load then in a photo editor that is immune and then make a trivial change to the picture and save it. The Image program should write a good copy over the original file.

I want to save the pictures.When you say trivial change to the jpg you mean open it in editor like paint for example and make a change for example like putting a dot in the corner of the picture? Is that what you mean by Trivial change?

[Geek-9pm]

Open the folder with the pictures. Place mouse pointer over the icon or thumbnail. Right click, then open with and select an image program that does not have the problem. Microsoft paint should work. put just a tiny speck on a corner of the image. then save it. The image should now be 'clean' and you can open it in the buggy image viewer.
If this does NOY work, plese come back here.