question about viruses
 

I was on someone's blog yesterday on blogger.com, and clicked on their profile picture. It showed up a little bigger in the blogger template and said click to view full size. I clicked and it downloaded a jpg that i could open in windows viewer or whatever app usually loads pictures like that.

I then ran a virus scan. Nothing showed up. My question is, could a keylogger come through something like that? Or can they only come when i run exe's?

Re: question about viruses
 

It could, there are known venerabilities, If you have your virus scanning stuff and windows updated, there's not reason to be really concerned unless you know otherwise. But yes, a jpg file could be compromised in such a way that it would allow executable code to be leaked to your computer if a unpatched vernability exists.

Re: question about viruses
 

As long as your windows is up to date, I wouldn't worry about it. The big bad JPG vulnerability was patched multiple years ago and I would consider JPG pretty bulletproof.

Re: question about viruses
 

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As long as your windows is up to date, I wouldn't worry about it. The big bad JPG vulnerability was patched multiple years ago and I would consider JPG pretty bulletproof.

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yeah I wouldn't worry. Hilarious uke avatar.