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Walmart Photo Keychain Comes Preloaded With Malware

Posted by timothy on from the caveat-maxima-emptor dept.

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.

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  1. have I missed something? by glitch23 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    With the Christmas holidays

    uh, since when has there been more than one Christmas? Do you politically correct people know how stupid you sound to other, more sane, people? This could be modded as off-topic but then again I did reply to something within the submission text so is it really off-topic or did I just bring up something some people just don't want to talk about?

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    this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom. -- Lincoln, Gettysburg Address
  2. Re:Disassembled? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Say, you wouldn't happen to be a big, beautiful all-American football hero type would you?

  3. Re:Old news by Eil · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Case in point.

    </grammar nazi>

  4. Re:Packer by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The Chargers' fudgepacking of the Broncos was equally enjoyable. Today was a good day for football.

  5. Re:Old news by trum4n · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    every flash drive i have, even my card SD reader, AutoPlays. And i the only person that dosetn run AntiVirus......yet has no computer problems? this is year 3 without a single problem. WinXP Pro, modified to get rid of auto updates and the DRM, never a problem. Hell, i download from LimeWire, and the internet in general, and have no problem. I dont open things from untrusted sources, and i use firefox with adblock.

  6. "case and point"? by macraig · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Not to be condescending: the proper cliched phrase is "case IN point". It's a linking preposition, not a conjunction, in the phrase. I'm not sure of the historical evolution of the phrase.

    Ah, here we go:

    http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-cas1.htm

  7. You all know the words by now! SING ALONG! by Chris+Tucker · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "Botnets, spammer's botnets!
    What kind of boxes are on botnets?

    Compaq, HP, Dell and Sony, true!
    Gateway, Packard Bell, maybe even Asus, too!

    Are boxes, found on botnets. All running Windows, FOO!"

    For myself, I'm currently running OSX, 10.5.6.

    Why, yes. Yes I AM a smug bastard! Thanks for asking!

    --
    Guaranteed! This comment 100% Anthrax free!