Which digital photo frame brands reportedly have had the Mocmex virus?
Posted on : 23-05-2010 | By : digital_photo_frames0 | In : Digital Photo Frames - Size
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One of Best Buy's house brand digital photo frames had the virus. It has been reported that Costco, Target and Sam's Club also sold brands that had the virus. What are these other brands and models?
Who reported this? Please give us a link.
A virus is a small piece of software that piggybacks on real programs. There are no programs on a digital photo frame, so I don’t know how it is possible for one to infect a frame
Now the Mocmex is not a virus … Mocmex is a Trojan horse from our friends in China. Trojan authors are well-funded professionals who have designed the virus to capture information without leaving behind any digital footprints. It is a form of economic espionage
A Trojan horse is simply a computer program. The program claims to do one thing (it may claim to be a game) but instead does damage when you run it. I don’t know how this is supposed to work on a frame, but who knows … just don’t play any game that comes with the frame.
Here is one link I found
http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=11100B2GMZ76
This is indeed an interesting story.
An outfit called “Computer Associates” has identified an extremely destructive virus called Mocmex, which can evade over 100 security fixes, collect private data and make a general mess of your computer.
It’s supposedly embedded in digital camera frames made in China.
I traced the articles on Google and they all lead back to ONE article in the San Francisco Chronicle which quoted Computer Associates.
There are no other independent reports of the virus — they’re all copy/paste of the Chronicle story.
So what we have here is a virus report which may itself be a virus.
HTH
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