- LH Justin
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Posted by: dazarobbo
Posted by: LH Justin
Also, you can't "attach" a virus to a regular image file. Learn how the Internet works...I'd like to interject here.
Image files contain data (which is just text) in the same way that programs with viruses contain data (which is also just text). Believe it or not, downloading a virus is completely harmless unless another program executes the commands within it, which is where it becomes a problem.
That being said, image files can contain malicious Javascript which, if and when read and executed by the browser, can be a security problem, especially in older browsers. A modern browser like Chrome, for instance, actually catches this and displays the full page "something's not right here" message.
And it has nothing to do with the Internet.
Posted by: LH Justin
The real issues behind custom avatars is the massive amounts of avatars that would be uploaded to Bungie's servers. Although this would cause nearly the amount of trouble animated GIFs would cause when attempting to load a thread.Not if the images were stored and delivered via a content delivery network then cached in the browser. Not to mention that objects like images which are separate from text in the HTML are downloaded separately so as not to block the rendering of the rest of the page.As you said up to date software virtually prevent this. Not to mention modern occurrences of this are extremely obscure. You are right, it is possible to send a virus via an image, but the chances of it occurring are incredibly small do to the impracticality of such a method. Image uploaders also typically have precautions that look through the files you are uploading and I assume that Bungie would use their own uploader rather than allowing people to use off-site avatars. I was quite careless with my words, but for all intents and purposes uploading a virus bearing image to Bungie.net would be impossible, as it would be on most online sites. The person I was responding to was acting as if it would be a major problem. And yeah, I would say it has to do with the internet considering an image would be uploaded to a server and then downloaded and cached by your browser, an application used to access the Internet.
Also, of course the images wouldn't prevent the rest of the page from loading. You would, however, see a bunch of blanks spaces where images should be. I myself consider a page incomplete when everything on the page isn't finished loading. My apologies again for the misunderstanding of words.