Olympus Digital Camera Ships With a Worm

An anonymous reader writes "Olympus Japan has issued a warning to customers who have bought its Stylus Tough 6010 digital compact camera that it comes with an unexpected extra — a virus on its internal memory card. The Autorun worm cannot infect the camera itself, but if it is plugged into a Windows computer's USB port, it can copy itself onto the PC, then subsequently infect any attached USB device. Olympus says it 'humbly apologizes' for the incident, which is believed to have affected some 1,700 units. The company said it will make every effort to improve its quality control procedures in future. Security company Sophos says that more companies need to wake up to the need for better quality control to ensure that they don't ship virus-infected gadgets. At the same time, consumers should learn to always ensure Autorun is disabled, and scan any device for malware before they use it on their computer."

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Re:I have a standard policy

[Culture20]

Unnecessary unless you use an ancient decade-plus-old Windows version. Vista and 7 stop this attack automatically by displaying the Autoplay dialog when a new device is inserted.

Decade plus, like Windows XP, quite probably purchased in 2007-2008? The version of the OS where attempting to disable autorun via the recommended method actually did not work, and Microsoft refused to fix that except as an optional patch for a year after it was discovered ?

In fact, Windows 7 removes the ability entirely to manually execute Autorun from a flash drive.

Really? Windows 7 removes the ability to manually execute something on a flash drive, just based on whether it's listed in autorun? I'll have to test that tomorrow morning, but I'm pretty sure you're wrong.

Every week?

[SuperKendall]

Stupid (L)user: OK.

Yes, and five minutes after they are calling you back to explain it again. And again.

You have obviously never worked anywhere near IT support for a company of any size whatsoever.