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<blockquote data-quote="gfgtkitkat34" data-source="post: 1112333" data-attributes="member: 116087">Let&#039;s say my desktop PC somehow got infected with a really nasty rootkit or something that doesn&#039;t show any symptoms. Can sophisticated malware like this actually infect photos in the device?What if I transfer some of the photos to another clean computer? Can the second device catch the infection as well?Is it possible for malware to automatically infect image formats like PNG without human interaction?Can a user get infected by receiving a bunch of photos from an infected PC? Even though his system is up to date and he has a good AV.I did my share of research, and it seems that it&#039;s near impossible for an average Joe to get infected this way because you have to find a zero-day vulnerability for this to work, and no hacker would ever use a brand new exploit on random people, but I could be wrong.Much appropriated for reply.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="gfgtkitkat34, post: 1112333, member: 116087"] Let's say my desktop PC somehow got infected with a really nasty rootkit or something that doesn't show any symptoms. Can sophisticated malware like this actually infect photos in the device? What if I transfer some of the photos to another clean computer? Can the second device catch the infection as well? Is it possible for malware to automatically infect image formats like PNG without human interaction? Can a user get infected by receiving a bunch of photos from an infected PC? Even though his system is up to date and he has a good AV. I did my share of research, and it seems that it's near impossible for an average Joe to get infected this way because you have to find a zero-day vulnerability for this to work, and no hacker would ever use a brand new exploit on random people, but I could be wrong. Much appropriated for reply. [/QUOTE]

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