New technology such as MP3s may soon be used as vectors for viruses, a security specialist visiting Australia has warned. "We've recently been looking at how things embedded into MP3 files might become a problem," Vincent Gullotto, vice president of AVERT -- the developer of McAffee anti-virus systems -- told ZDNet Australia.. . .

New technology such as MP3s may soon be used as vectors for viruses, a security specialist visiting Australia has warned. "We've recently been looking at how things embedded into MP3 files might become a problem," Vincent Gullotto, vice president of AVERT -- the developer of McAffee anti-virus systems -- told ZDNet Australia. "There will soon be MP3s that will play the video clip at the same time as the music, and if you can embed movie files to MP3s you can embed Java and other languages that may contain malicious programming."

The big trend recently has been viruses that use mass mailing as a vector, which really took off after the Melissa virus, according to Gullotto. Many companies have now installed protection such as blocking executable files, which reduces the effect of viruses using this vector.

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