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Walmart Photo Keychain Comes Preloaded With Malware
Blowit writes "With the Christmas holidays just past and opening up your electronic presents may get you all excited, but not for a selected lot of people who got the Mercury 1.5" Digital Photo Frame from Walmart (or other stores). My father-in-law attached the device to his computer and his Trend Micro Anti-virus screamed that a virus is on the device. I scanned the one I have and AVAST did not find any virus ... So I went to Virscan.org to see which vendors found what, and the results are here and here." Update: 12/29 05:44 GMT by T : The joy is even more widespread; MojoKid points out that some larger digital photo frames have been delivered similarly infected this year, specifically Samsung's SPF-85H 8-inch digital photo frame, sold through Amazon among other vendors, which arrived with "W32.Sality.AE worm on the installation disc for
Samsung Frame Manager XP Version 1.08, which is needed for using the SPF-85H as a USB monitor." Though Amazon was honest enough to issue an alert, that alert offers no reason to think that only Amazon's stock was affected.
And Walmart employees also cough on the their real photos. Double virus score!
And when the hell are the malware writers going to start open sourcing their code? They do everything they can to push their pre-compiled binaries onto people's machines, why not the source as well?
Note - Liberal use of <sarcasm> tags may or may not need to be applied.
Funny thing though--it didn't run under Linux.
Does anything run under Linux? If only Linux could correctly run even a virus!
It twas I, Peter Piper that purchased the picture peeper with a packer.