PDA

View Full Version : Security of digital camera when using USB card reader


zhengshareware
July 21st 07, 04:44 AM
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

zhengshareware
July 21st 07, 08:27 AM
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

Ian
July 28th 07, 09:06 AM
SPAM SPAM SPAM.

HST, it has always surpised me that autorun has never been more fully
exploited by malware authors. It must rank as the most braindead piece of
programming ever - Put in a disk, and a program of unknown origin and purpose
will run. You may not even see any evidence of its running, and it can do
just about anything to your computer - including replicate itself to other
auto-running media.

In principle it's worse than the old floppy viruses, at least there you had
to make the mistake of leaving the disk in at reboot. Here you don't even
need to make any mistake to get infected.

What is the point of any other security measures with a 'feature' like this,
I ask?