Security of digital camera when using USB card reader

[Guest zhengshareware]

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]

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

[Guest 98 Guy]

Re: Security of digital camera when using USB card reader

 

zhengshareware wrote:

 

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[Guest Stanislaw Flatto]

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.