Security of digital camera when using USB card reader

Digital cameras have gained popularity nowadays. However, they are
always host to viruses, Trojans, hacker toolkits, worms and other
kinds of malicious programs. For example, when you plug your USB card
into a computer that is infected by viruses, these viruses will enter
into your USB card by creating a file named AUTORUN.INF and malicious
programs on the digital camera. After that, when you use the digital
camera in another computer, the one will be at risk. So, how should
we protect against threats from digital cameras? Well, here are some
suggestions.
1. Disable AUTORUN in the registry and remove the AUTORUN.INF file
manually. The AUTORUN.INF file is a text file located in the root
directory. It enables malicious programs to automatically run when the
USB card is plugged into a computer. Therefore, many instructions
online suggest you to disable AUTORUN in the registry and delete the
AUTORUN.INF file and the malicious programs manually. But we are not
familiar with the registry and AUTORUN files.
2. Scan the USB card by certain antivirus software whenever it is
plugged into a computer. However, antivirus software is always based
on the database of signature and can't find new malicious programs.
What is more, scanning USB card is time consuming.
3. Choose the software Removable Storage Guard to help you turn the
AUTORUN off and remove all the threats from your USB card quickly and
exactly by its new technology. You needn't worry about threats from
digital cameras as soon as you install the software.
You can find the software on http://www.download.com
Download link:
http://www.download.com/Removable-St...ml?tag=lst-0-2
http://www.tucows.com/software_detail.html?id=513961

zhengshareware wrote:
Digital cameras have gained popularity nowadays. However, they are
always host to viruses, Trojans, hacker toolkits, worms and other
kinds of malicious programs. For example, when you plug your USB card
into a computer that is infected by viruses, these viruses will enter
into your USB card by creating a file named AUTORUN.INF and malicious
programs on the digital camera. After that, when you use the digital
camera in another computer, the one will be at risk. So, how should
we protect against threats from digital cameras? Well, here are some
suggestions.
1. Disable AUTORUN in the registry and remove the AUTORUN.INF file
manually. The AUTORUN.INF file is a text file located in the root
directory. It enables malicious programs to automatically run when the
USB card is plugged into a computer. Therefore, many instructions
online suggest you to disable AUTORUN in the registry and delete the
AUTORUN.INF file and the malicious programs manually. But we are not
familiar with the registry and AUTORUN files.
2. Scan the USB card by certain antivirus software whenever it is
plugged into a computer. However, antivirus software is always based
on the database of signature and can't find new malicious programs.
What is more, scanning USB card is time consuming.
3. Choose the software Removable Storage Guard to help you turn the
AUTORUN off and remove all the threats from your USB card quickly and
exactly by its new technology. You needn't worry about threats from
digital cameras as soon as you install the software.
You can find the software on http://www.download.com
Download link:
http://www.download.com/Removable-St...ml?tag=lst-0-2
http://www.tucows.com/software_detail.html?id=513961

First, viruses, trojans etc. don't get loaded onto a camera flash card
unless you put them there.

Second, when you format the card in the camera, any programs on the disk
are removed from the FAT table.

Third, you have posted a pack of bull**** to scare people into buying
your 'program'.

This makes you a spammer. Spammers are not tolerated in this group.

**** off.

Colin D.

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Many people around us got infected with USB disk in this way, but
antivirus software (Norton Kaspersky) is not able to kill new viruses
on USB memory disk. The original purpose of developing the software is
to help them. You can try it without doing any harm to your computer.
If the software is useless to you, you can uninstall it. If you don't
believe in us, these are some articles online.

http://www.schneier.com/essays-comp.html
http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com...852429,00.html
http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com...248767,00.html
http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com...234176,00.html
http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com...861953,00.html

On Fri, 20 Jul 2007 20:07:36 -0700
zhengshareware wrote:

Digital cameras have gained popularity nowadays. However, they are
always host to viruses, Trojans, hacker toolkits, worms and other
kinds of malicious programs. For example, when you plug your USB card
into a computer that is infected by viruses, these viruses will enter
into your USB card by creating a file named AUTORUN.INF and malicious
programs on the digital camera. After that, when you use the digital
camera in another computer, the one will be at risk. So, how should
we protect against threats from digital cameras? Well, here are some
suggestions.
1. Disable AUTORUN in the registry and remove the AUTORUN.INF file
manually. The AUTORUN.INF file is a text file located in the root
directory. It enables malicious programs to automatically run when the
USB card is plugged into a computer. Therefore, many instructions
online suggest you to disable AUTORUN in the registry and delete the
AUTORUN.INF file and the malicious programs manually. But we are not
familiar with the registry and AUTORUN files.
2. Scan the USB card by certain antivirus software whenever it is
plugged into a computer. However, antivirus software is always based
on the database of signature and can't find new malicious programs.
What is more, scanning USB card is time consuming.
3. Choose the software Removable Storage Guard to help you turn the
AUTORUN off and remove all the threats from your USB card quickly and
exactly by its new technology. You needn't worry about threats from
digital cameras as soon as you install the software.
You can find the software on http://www.download.com
Download link:
http://www.download.com/Removable-St...ml?tag=lst-0-2
http://www.tucows.com/software_detail.html?id=513961

Forget all this - just use a linux or bsd distro.

--
Neil
Reverse ie and delete l for email.

On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 00:17:19 -0700
zhengshareware wrote:
In the UK you are supposed to clean up after your dog - why haven't you?

--
Neil
Reverse ie and delete l for email.

zhengshareware wrote:
Digital cameras have gained popularity nowadays. However, they are
always host to viruses, Trojans, hacker toolkits, worms and other
kinds of malicious programs. For example, when you plug your USB card
into a computer that is infected by viruses, these viruses will enter
into your USB card by creating a file named AUTORUN.INF and malicious
programs on the digital camera. After that, when you use the digital
camera in another computer, the one will be at risk.

What a bull****!

jue

On Fri, 20 Jul 2007 20:07:36 -0700, zhengshareware wrote:

Digital cameras have gained popularity nowadays. However, they are
always host to viruses, Trojans, hacker toolkits, worms and other
kinds of malicious programs. For example, when you plug your USB card
into a computer that is infected by viruses, these viruses will enter
into your USB card by creating a file named AUTORUN.INF and malicious
programs on the digital camera. After that, when you use the digital
camera in another computer, the one will be at risk. So, how should
we protect against threats from digital cameras? Well, here are some
suggestions.
1. Disable AUTORUN in the registry and remove the AUTORUN.INF file
manually. The AUTORUN.INF file is a text file located in the root
directory. It enables malicious programs to automatically run when the
USB card is plugged into a computer. Therefore, many instructions
online suggest you to disable AUTORUN in the registry and delete the
AUTORUN.INF file and the malicious programs manually. But we are not
familiar with the registry and AUTORUN files.
2. Scan the USB card by certain antivirus software whenever it is
plugged into a computer. However, antivirus software is always based
on the database of signature and can't find new malicious programs.
What is more, scanning USB card is time consuming.
3. Choose the software Removable Storage Guard to help you turn the
AUTORUN off and remove all the threats from your USB card quickly and
exactly by its new technology. You needn't worry about threats from
digital cameras as soon as you install the software.
You can find the software on http://www.download.com
Download link:
http://www.download.com/Removable-St...ml?tag=lst-0-2
http://www.tucows.com/software_detail.html?id=513961

A much simpler way to avoid all the virus mess is simply to use Linux.
Been doing that for five years on four computers, and never had a malware
infestation despite zero protective measures.

J¨¹rgen Exner wrote:
zhengshareware wrote:
Digital cameras have gained popularity nowadays. However, they are
always host to viruses, Trojans, hacker toolkits, worms and other
kinds of malicious programs. For example, when you plug your USB card
into a computer that is infected by viruses, these viruses will enter
into your USB card by creating a file named AUTORUN.INF and malicious
programs on the digital camera. After that, when you use the digital
camera in another computer, the one will be at risk.

What a bull****!

jue



I'm no virus expert, but it sounds feasible. However, as mentioned
formatting will remove the threat and most of us format to erase the
card anyway and secondly to exploit the threat one needs to plug the
infected card into another computer. Hardly worth it for virus writers
who depend on wide distribution and usage to make their efforts
worthwhile. How many people reading this plug their cards into other
than their own computer?
Dave Cohen

ray wrote:
On Fri, 20 Jul 2007 20:07:36 -0700, zhengshareware wrote:


A much simpler way to avoid all the virus mess is simply to use Linux.
Been doing that for five years on four computers, and never had a malware
infestation despite zero protective measures.



A good way to avoid this Chinese marketing spam with to kill all
messages from 163.com. This and several other in the form of (2 or 3
digits plus .com) are all Chinese, used extensivey for this kind of spam.
Allen

zhengshareware wrote:
Digital cameras have gained popularity nowadays. However, they are
always host to viruses, Trojans, hacker toolkits, worms and other
kinds of malicious programs. For example, when you plug your USB card
into a computer that is infected by viruses, these viruses will enter
into your USB card by creating a file named AUTORUN.INF and malicious
programs on the digital camera. After that, when you use the digital
camera in another computer, the one will be at risk. So, how should
we protect against threats from digital cameras? Well, here are some
suggestions.

A virus is aimed at a specific program on your computer.
I've never heard of a virus directed at the software in a
camera.

If a virus got on your card, formatting in the camera would
get rid of it. Otherwise, it could infect the next computer
that you attached the card to.