Digital photo frame virus

Lincoln Russell 18 Feb, 2008 at 10:46am ET Article published in Tech

Think twice before hooking up that new digital photo frame to your Windows computer. A slick new password-stealing trojan virus appears to be shipping on some models.

The virus’s origins has been tracked to China, purportedly well-funded professionals. It is designed to be stealthy and cannot presently be detected by antivirus software. While it’s currently only stealing passwords, it seems it has much greater potential. One security expert called it a potential “nuclear bomb” of malware.

Comments

18 Feb 2008 ~ 11:24am primesuspect Except for about 13 people buy those stupid photo frames...

NUCLEAR BOMB!
18 Feb 2008 ~ 2:25pm Leonardo

Except for about 13 people buy those stupid photo frames...

Actually, they are becoming very, very popular: gifts to elderly family members who want pictures but are computer illiterate, people at work who are not allowed to upload images, et cetera. I have actually considered buying one for my parents. My dad prints photos from his camera's memory card at Wal Mart and then formats the card without downloading to a computer. He doesn't know how and will not learn.
18 Feb 2008 ~ 4:15pm Thrax They're so tacky. :\
19 Feb 2008 ~ 12:51am Leonardo

They're so tacky. :\

I agree. They need to get larger, lose the stupid looking frames, and get thinner.
19 Feb 2008 ~ 12:53am Gate28

Thrax wrote:

They're so tacky. :\

Agreed. *Looks at himself in his mother's digital picture frame across the room*
19 Feb 2008 ~ 12:55am Leonardo The market obviously disagrees with some of us here. Those digital pictures frames sell like crazy - computer stores, big box stores, electronics stores, even from overpriced, mediocre department stores. They're everywhere and don't get dusty on the shelves.
19 Feb 2008 ~ 2:15am jhenry Heh, grocery stores here have them... Longs, Vons etc all have digital picture frames and even with the hideous markup still sell like hotcakes.