Comments on: Malicious image could open security hole in Razr

Motorola fixes hole in new Razr phones that could open them up to attack.

[The_Decider]

"If you use a Motorola Razr cell phone, don't accept JPEGs from strangers."

Worst advise ever!!! You should be immediately fired, not only for this asinine comment but the many you write every single week. Just because an image comes from a friend doesn't mean it is not malware. Now, if one knows for an absolute fact that said friend took the picture so it can't be compromised, then perhaps a person will feel safe opening it. Then again maybe the person you think it is coming from really isn't that person and instead is some evildoer. Best bet is to verify it is a legitimate image and has no executable code in it, NO MATTER WHERE THE IMAGE CAME FROM..

What are your qualifications for writing at an allegedly tech news site? You know how to turn on a computer and use word? Inexcusable ignorance.

[Vegaman_Dan]

It sounds like your understanding of the technology may be incomplete. The article is about a cell phone, not a computer. Unless you can give specific exact information on how to double check and verify that an image file contains no executable code in it from the phone itself, then you have no leg to stand on.

In other words...

SHUT UP, YOU ABSOLUTE WASTE OF SPACE.

Is it just me or is this guy is getting more and more annoyingly stupid every day?

[The_Decider]

Dan,

As usual you show your total ignorance. Cell phone? Computer? A razr is a computer dumb ass! Seriously, you have shown absolutely no computer knowledge and the statement made was ludicrious on its face and displays total ignorance.

How am I a waste of space when you don't understand computers even at a rudimentary level. That you would defend inorance is not suprising since you revel in your ignorance.

Are you really this stupid? You download the file to a computer and check it. Seriously, you couldn't figure that out? You are a waste of oxygen *******.

[The_Decider]

"If you use a Motorola Razr cell phone, don't accept JPEGs from strangers."

Worst advise ever!!! You should be immediately fired, not only for this asinine comment but the many you write every single week. Just because an image comes from a friend doesn't mean it is not malware. Now, if one knows for an absolute fact that said friend took the picture so it can't be compromised, then perhaps a person will feel safe opening it. Then again maybe the person you think it is coming from really isn't that person and instead is some evildoer. Best bet is to verify it is a legitimate image and has no executable code in it, NO MATTER WHERE THE IMAGE CAME FROM..

What are your qualifications for writing at an allegedly tech news site? You know how to turn on a computer and use word? Inexcusable ignorance.

[The_Decider]

"If you use a Motorola Razr cell phone, don't accept JPEGs from strangers."

Worst advise ever!!! You should be immediately fired, not only for this asinine comment but the many you write every single week. Just because an image comes from a friend doesn't mean it is not malware. Now, if one knows for an absolute fact that said friend took the picture so it can't be compromised, then perhaps a person will feel safe opening it. Then again maybe the person you think it is coming from really isn't that person and instead is some evildoer. Best bet is to verify it is a legitimate image and has no executable code in it, NO MATTER WHERE THE IMAGE CAME FROM..

What are your qualifications for writing at an allegedly tech news site? You know how to turn on a computer and use word? Inexcusable ignorance.

[The_Decider]

"If you use a Motorola Razr cell phone, don't accept JPEGs from strangers."

Worst advise ever!!! You should be immediately fired, not only for this asinine comment but the many you write every single week. Just because an image comes from a friend doesn't mean it is not malware. Now, if one knows for an absolute fact that said friend took the picture so it can't be compromised, then perhaps a person will feel safe opening it. Then again maybe the person you think it is coming from really isn't that person and instead is some evildoer. Best bet is to verify it is a legitimate image and has no executable code in it, NO MATTER WHERE THE IMAGE CAME FROM..

What are your qualifications for writing at an allegedly tech news site? You know how to turn on a computer and use word? Inexcusable ignorance.

[The_Decider]

Sorry for the 4 posts. All 4 times returned an error that apparently didn't exist. It seems that the writers at CNET are not alone in their incompetence.

[The_Decider]

LOL, two of them mysteriously vanished.

[Vegaman_Dan]

You are absoluetely correct, The_Decider. Incompetence is something you are very familiar with- people only need to look at your postings.

[The_Decider]

LOL you are funny Dan. You don't understand that cell phones today are computers and that you can download files from a phone to computer and you call me ignorant?

I guess in the world you live in where your opinions are fed to you from the MS marketing department that makes some sort of sense.

[kingx12]

ok dude he said dont accept picture messages from strangers hence someone who is not in your contacts and your making a big deal out of this for what reason , plus just go download the software

[The_Decider]

I am making a big deal of this because the author stupidly implies that it is OK to open files from friends. This is the height of ignorance and a large reason why there are so many security issues.

[The_Decider]

Also, you do not seem to understand that a file from a friend is not necessarily safe. Just because the address that was used to send the file doesn't mean your friend sent it. You obviously don't know much about computers else you would know that it is easy to spoof email addresses, phone numbers, etc. You can never absolutely know that a file is safe or it came from the person you think it did. How hard is that to understand?

You, Vegetable Head, and Elinor are the reason why so much malware gets spread. Ignorance is the prime cause of getting infected. You three are exhibit A in the argument that people should not use any sort of networked computing devices without a license.

[kingx12]

ok dude he said dont accept picture messages from strangers hence someone who is not in your contacts and your making a big deal out of this for what reason , plus just go download the software

[benjaminstraight]

Wow. Lucky I caught this.