Ugh, we were already sick of digital photo frames -- and now it looks those now-discontinued
virus-ridden Insignia units from Best Buy and several other models produced in China were carrying a much nastier trojan that we'd
originally heard. According to an analyst form Computer Associates, the trojan, called Mocmex, is able to block more than 100 types of security and anti-virus software from killing it, and bypasses the Windows firewall to download files from remote locations, spreading them randomly over your hard drive and any portable storage device you plug into your PC -- like, for example, a digital photo frame. The trojan is apparently set to only steal gaming passwords at present, but CA says it's capable of stealing nearly any information on your machine, and thinks it might be a test for a much worse virus yet to come. Infected frames have come from Sam's Club, Target and Costco, in addition to Best Buy, so we'd say to avoid picking one up until this mess gets sorted out -- or, you know, forever.
posted February 15th 2008 7:24PM
off topic that's pretty annoying it has a remote, what if it gets lost
Nilay, you aren't the only one sick of digital photo frames: http://lowtechtimes.com/2008/02/10/four-reasons-to-choose-old-fashioned-picture-frames-instead-of-digital-picture-frames/
Honestly...Anyone who buys a "digital picture frame" deserves to get a virus.
Haha. I'm just sayin' what we're all thinking.
Anyone who uses software susceptible to viruses deserves to get a virus.
I wonder if those photo things can run X..
..fluxbox, matchbox, or xfce?
Are they ARM?
Another nice present from China:
http://www.theledger.com/article/20080215/NEWS/802150412/1338/news
Wait... kids are still into Pokemon?
Oh, not THAT serious then...
*grabs a Mac/Linux computer and a roll of camera film and runs to a bunker*
Why dont you buy a photo frame produced by a reliable company instead of crap made in china?
can you reformat the digital frame? do these things have an OS or something? if so, why?
seems simpler to hw the display app, rather that have some sort of CPU, I mean, what else could it be used for?
sorry if stupid - i know nothing about these things.
This is the tip of the tip of the iceburg. The Chinese have so much CRAP coming into the United States and other countries. If they were to load their exported electronics equipment with viruses built to attack our infastructure, they could easily take down our electricty, communications, etc.. and a war with the US would then be a much easier one to win. Its quite sad really that noone has thought of this sooner and we all blindly buy Chineese garbage products because they are cheap. The Chineese have a history of cyber warfare and spying, How could anyone not see this coming? I tell you this, it will bite us in the end (no pun intended)
The US government is smarter than you think.
Most of the US military telecom equipments and important equipments are provided by American companies like CISCO.
Someone opined that, "I dont have to worry about my furniture bypassing Windows Firewalls and disabling my antivirus software, now do I?"
Actually that may not turn out to be true. At some point you will probably have a RFID reader in your house. If 1) they embed a RFID tag in their manufactured goods (very likely), and 2) that tag contains even subcomponent of a robust security threat (again, very likely considering that the frame virus was clearly the work of a group, not some hacker at the frame factory), then it may well be a sofa, books, clock or toaster oven that supplies the final code which "hacks" your homes information infrastructure!
Just how awesome is this threat? They can embed lots of it right on your motherboards and microcontrollers--sleeping like a dormant viral gene--ready to be activated when the conditions are right!
well i think we cannot make the generalisation that all made in china is crap though, I am pretty sure if all made in china is crap like people said here then most of us here would have been dead already, not sitting comfortably in front of a "made in china" PC typing on a "made in china" keyboard.
if people here are old enough, we can remember that back in 10 years ago, "made in taiwan" and "made in south korea" were considered the laughing stock of late night television shows.
My uncle has a haier fridge and it's been running for over 5 years now without any problems.
"block more than 100 types of security and anti-virus software" - All I care about.
I'm surprised that this kind of thing happens as rarely as it does, and it's a QC issue, I am sure will be dealt with by firing squad. I want to know more...
At least it's pretty innocuous, that is unless you are loaded with purples.
I'm confused. So the OS of the picture frame has a trojan. How is that going to get to my computer? Does it drop itself into the SD card and then jump onto the hard drive of a computer when it is used to download more photos?
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http://www.ifiwasamillionaire.com/category/mocmex/
ENGADGET!!! THESE SITE STOLE YOUR POST
http://www.ifiwasamillionaire.com/category/mocmex/
My Ford is better than your Chevy. I like Dale Ernhart. He had a digital picture frame and now he is dead. Too bad he didn't use SuSE or Red Hat. I think VMS is much more practical - no virii there. I buy all my food from China, I pick it up already cooked at the China Wok down on Main St. What a bunch of fools you people are who live on the lower left of the Bell curve.