"mm" wrote in message
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On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 17:13:37 -0600, "philo" wrote:





The card reader would plug into your USB2...
get a card reader that's for the memory card inside the camera...




Should have said that USB1 will work too...
just quite a bit slower

I just got back from vacation, during which I bought a Fujifilm
camera. A guy I met had a messed up memory card, and his camera --
brand I don't remmeber -- and I took it to the camera store which said
he had a virus in the card, and that he must have gotten it from the
computer he used, and that this problem would be avoided by using a
card reader instead of plugging into the camera. But two guys on the
photography newsgroup said that was likely a bunch of hooey, that a
card reader wouldn't protect the camera or the card because the
computer couldn't transfer a virus to either of them. Who is right?

BTW, he didn't use a computer between the time the camera worked and
the time it didn't. He didn't even have his computer with him. He
just took pictures one day and it worked and the next day it wouldn't
work. He tried his memory card in another camera and it didn't work
there either (and he may have tried another card in his camera and it
did work.)(

The camera store said it got 150 pictures off the card and that he
could reformat it and it would be good again.

Who is telling the truth?



If a computer was infected with a virus....then I suppose It's possible it
could spread to a camera's
memory card. Using a card reader would be no safer.

However...if the camera was not even connected to the computer...
the card could not have been infected with a virus.
More than likely, the file system had gotten corrupted...
possibly by removing the card while data was still being transferred.