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Originally posted by Tyhm
Yes yes, and you can embed virii in MP3s and in the subject lines of emails. You can put a virus anywhere, even in a forum post's text - what matters is if the recieving person uses a viewer stupid enough to execute any code it comes across. Some viewers are, it's called a Memory Leak: If they read a text box with "; format c:; print ", it processes that as print""; format c:; print "" instead of print""; format c:; print ""; with the obvious effects.
Point being, unless Graal has a memory leak I could rename the melissa virus frog.png and force everyone to download it, a few virus checkers would detect and delete, nobody would properly see the frog graphic, but nobody would be attacked by the virus. If virii were as sci-fi dangerous as you think, they'd dissolve the disk they were stored on.
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I don't look at virii in a sci-fi fasion. My point is that most of Graal's players use computers purchased by parents who may fly off the handle if there happens to be a virus on the computer. Then little Johnny can't play Graal anymore because his parents think its a living and breathing virus of some sort and are extremely paranoid about thier "expensive" computer. And some parents are the activist types who will make it thier sole duty to inform and steer people away from Graal.