Non-Executable Malicious Files and Code (Webroot)

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Sort of an old video from 2011, by Webroot.

[url=http://www.webroot.com/blog/2011/10/07/non-executable-malicious-files-and-code-thret-reply/]Thre@t Reply[/url] said:
.exe, PHP, HTML, and the list goes on. How many different kinds of files and code can potentially infect your PC? Webroot threat research analyst Nathan Collier explains a few of the the types of potentially dangerous files, other than the common executable (.exe) that can be found on a Windows PC and cause harm to it.




Just something else I found on Google, here's a link (PDF) - Detection of Malicious Non-Executable Files Using Syntactic Structure
 
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