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Security of digital camera when using USB card reader
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-St...ml?tag=lst-0-2 http://www.tucows.com/software_detail.html?id=513961 |
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Security of digital camera when using USB card reader
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...852429,00.html http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com...248767,00.html http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com...234176,00.html http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com...861953,00.html |
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Security of digital camera when using USB card reader
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? |
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