Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
From sfgate.org we hear of the "Viirus from China, the gift that keeps on giving."
A new Trojan horse virus collects passwords, currently just game passwords but could take anything from your hard drives! Computer Associates named this sophisticated virus Mocmex and this is immune to more than 100 antivirus protocols. Microsoft security in Windows and it's firewall are of no defense!
The PC computers that get infected (via a CF or other card) pull in and hide files from everywhere and rename them. This seems to have originated in a specific group in China.
Since it is not really very malicious right now, it may simply be a test on a massive scale to learn how it propagates
"Updated antivirus software works unless the malware writers get ahead of the antivirus vendors, which is what happened with the new Trojan. Computer Associates, for example, just began protecting against it last week."
My suggestion: if you must use a digital Picture Frame, never connect it to you PC or Mac, just do a one way last use sacrifice of a cheap CF or SD card.
Asher
A new Trojan horse virus collects passwords, currently just game passwords but could take anything from your hard drives! Computer Associates named this sophisticated virus Mocmex and this is immune to more than 100 antivirus protocols. Microsoft security in Windows and it's firewall are of no defense!
The PC computers that get infected (via a CF or other card) pull in and hide files from everywhere and rename them. This seems to have originated in a specific group in China.
Since it is not really very malicious right now, it may simply be a test on a massive scale to learn how it propagates
"Updated antivirus software works unless the malware writers get ahead of the antivirus vendors, which is what happened with the new Trojan. Computer Associates, for example, just began protecting against it last week."
My suggestion: if you must use a digital Picture Frame, never connect it to you PC or Mac, just do a one way last use sacrifice of a cheap CF or SD card.
Asher