Guest zhengshareware Posted July 21, 2007 Posted July 21, 2007 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-Storage-Guard/3000-2239_4-10708709.html?tag=lst-0-2 http://www.tucows.com/software_detail.html?id=513961
Guest zhengshareware Posted July 21, 2007 Posted July 21, 2007 Re: Security of digital camera when using USB card reader 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/tip/1,289483,sid14_gci852429,00.html http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/expert/KnowledgebaseAnswer/0,289625,sid14_gci1248767,00.html http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/expert/KnowledgebaseAnswer/0,289625,sid14_gci1234176,00.html http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/expert/KnowledgebaseAnswer/0,289625,sid14_gci861953,00.html
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Guest Stanislaw Flatto Posted July 23, 2007 Posted July 23, 2007 Re: Security of digital camera when using USB card reader 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-Storage-Guard/3000-2239_4-10708709.html?tag=lst-0-2 > http://www.tucows.com/software_detail.html?id=513961 > Use proper OS and all this subject will disappear. Stanislaw Slack user from Ulladulla.
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