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Digital Picture Frames Infected by Trojan Viruses

Posted by Zonk on from the watch-where-you're-buying-things-from dept.

CR0WTR0B0T writes "The San Francisco Chronicle is running a story on viruses loaded into digital picture frames, similar to the ones we discussed at the end of last year. The difference is in the virus used: 'The authors of the new Trojan Horse are well-funded professionals whose malware has 'specific designs to capture something and not leave traces ... This would be a nuclear bomb of malware.' Apparently, a number of regular folks have hooked them up to their home computer and loaded the virus. And if you think you're too smart to be fooled, apparently the Anti-Virus software makers have not caught up to the threat quite yet."

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  1. Three R's again!!! by MrKaos · · Score: 4, Funny
    Well four now, since Vista was released,,

    If you're attacked and your PC fails, you'll have to reformat and reload all of the programs.
    and it triggers two of the 4 r's of Microsoft

    reboot the machine

    reload the applications *

    reformat/reinstall the OS *

    revert to the previous version

    but it must be fun cause we do it over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over.

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  2. Re:Well... by CR0WTR0B0T · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yes. I wondered why my chair was so lumpy.

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  3. Fire the metaphor writer by brusk · · Score: 4, Funny

    'specific designs to capture something and not leave traces ... This would be a nuclear bomb of malware.'

    Say what? Whenever I want to sneak in somewhere and get away all quiet-and-subtle-like, my first thoughts are of atomic weaponry. Want to steal sensitive documents? Just detonate a small thermonuclear device and no one will even realize you were there, and you'll leave no traces (unless you count a loud bang, bright light, mushroom cloud, charred corpses, fallout and a spike in cancer rates and radiation levels).

    Ninjas. Men in Black-style mindwiping. Cat burglar. Evil hypnotist. Lots of available analogies. Nuclear bomb ain't one of them.

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  4. Re:Well... by 93+Escort+Wagon · · Score: 3, Funny

    hardcore gamers aren't likely to use digital picture frames you plucked this assertion out of your ass I'd hazard a guess that he's right. Aren't the photos people display in frames usually of friends, lovers, or spouses?
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