Have you seen the recent digital photo frames?, perhaps you have already bought one?
I love the idea, stick the card from your camera into your frame, and viola a picture frame that changes with your favorite pics.. What a great idea RIGHT?
Well suppose you go out and buy one, only to have it spread a virus to your home PC ! This is what happened to a particular Best Buy's house-brand Insignia photo frames are indeed virus-infected.
The virus known as Mocmex. When it gets installed it attempts to disable all your existing anti virus methods and steal gaming related passwords.
How you get infected?
The picture frame contains it's own internal memory that allows you to load pictures onto with a USB cable, when you connect the picture frame to your computer, it will pop up in your My Computer with a drive letter. If you do not have autorun.inf disabled, it will automatically run the virus and install it on your computer. The virus then isntalls itself on all other removable media when you insert it into your computer.
How it happened?
When these frames were manufuactured, the virus was placed in the internal flash memory inside the frame. At some point during manufacuting, the frames are connected to a PC (possibly for testing purposes). One or more of the PC's contained a copy of the virus, which copied itself to the
Misconceptions:
Many media outlets have played on the fact that this virus came from a manufaturing plant in China. I believe this is an attempt to play on the China conspiracy regrading many problem products supposidly identified from China in recent months. This problem could easily happen in any manufacturing plant, that is not carefully paying attention to virus scanning on manufucatuing systems.
What you can do about it?
Of course all the standard stuff applies, have good anti-virus software and keep it up to date, etc. The easiest way to avoid virus's being transferred to your PC from removable media is to disable the "Autorun feature". This feature allows programs to run as soon as new media is inserted.
There is a nice set of instructions at the bottom of this Edgadget article to help you out.
Can't wait to get a new wireless picture frame
then the fun really starts !
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