scanning avi's for viruses

just a quick question, but would be advisable to filter out .avi, .rm*, .mp3 files from my virus scanner?

has anyone ever heard of anything hiding away in them?

Yes.

unless you regularly execute video files, yes you should filter them out.

>>3
Video files can contain carefully crafted bytestreams which exploit vulnerabilities in crappy media players written in C or other stupid language that uses pointers.

>>4
I use Mediaplayer classic

>>3
I dont watch television, just DL and stream everything off the net

>>5

Theres no real reason to filter them, heuristic scanning takes virtually no time and there /can/ be nasty stuff inside media files. Player doesnt matter, its the codecs that have bugs so whether you use MPC or WMP or whatever, theyre succeptable.