Can I get a virus from this image?

[reee]

Someone added me and sent me this image. https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/780730940920199738/C84912C4507D0A7AF5DE6054ED0AE3E3497ABB53/. can i get a virus from it?

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

No. That's where they're stored.

[reee]

ok thank you i just got kinda scared cuz i clicked on it

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

You can see here by clicking this and then clicking the picture again and see the URL for where it leads...

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1378625514

[ShelLuser]

Depends on your image viewer.

If you look at a picture in your browser? No way.

If you download said picture and then look at it again in an installed image viewer... you could be in trouble (no guarantees!).

The longer story

(don't mind the dramatics too much, am in my 'steam rules' mood right now) :)

SO the longer story is this: it can happen that "bad people" add "bad stuff" to a physical image. The idea here is that your image viewer will load the image, doesn't understand what to do with the overhead which then gets placed in an area that it used for the actual program execution itself. In other words: they try to 'do' stuff by telling your image viewer to do so.

But all major browsers (Edge, Opera, Chrome) were build to counter for this. Also: If a picture tries to target a well known image viewer then that doesn't automatically mean its attack will work on a browser too.

If you use a 'major' browser you should be fine. But do be careful when downloading pics and opening them in a local image viewer. If your viewer suddenly triggers an alarm that you need to elevate your permissions: DON'T!

(context: I own Win10 Pro which has sandbox mode, and I heavily use that to try crap out. This can happen but.. Windows does try to warn you about it).

Hope this can also help!

[reee]

i know about steganography and changing the bits of an image to inject a payload into it i was just wondering if this link is legit or sus

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

The link you posted is an image on the Steam servers.

[reee]

ok ty

[kosalokopoko]

i think u cannot

[Kargor]

Originally posted by fauxtronic:

It's really not worth being paranoid about such images. You've got more chance of winning the lottery than falling victim to that kind of malware distribution vector.

Definitely. Just don't ignore the red lights popping up when someone tries to point to you to "FreeGirls.jpg.exe". Or the famous "scr" Screenshots.

[massivelegend]

I think NO

[reee]

Originally posted by Kargor:

Originally posted by fauxtronic:

It's really not worth being paranoid about such images. You've got more chance of winning the lottery than falling victim to that kind of malware distribution vector.

Definitely. Just don't ignore the red lights popping up when someone tries to point to you to "FreeGirls.jpg.exe". Or the famous "scr" Screenshots.

Yeah I'm not that dumb to fall for a image.jpg.exe file

[AniPita]

Originally posted by fauxtronic:

Originally posted by pa3k ︻芫═───:

It's really not worth being paranoid about such images. You've got more chance of winning the lottery than falling victim to that kind of malware distribution vector.

Guess I won the lottery XD