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Re: malware in digital photo frames infects users computers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Ioannidis)
Sun Jan 27 16:47:15 2008
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 13:03:02 -0500
From: John Ioannidis <ji@tla.org>
To: Alex Alten <alex@alten.org>
CC: cryptography@metzdowd.com
In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.1.20080127020941.03e73488@mail.alten.org>
Alex Alten wrote:
> Great. What next? I guess air-gap transfer of flash memory might be
> the best solution.
>
> Malware's new infection route: photo frames
> http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2008/01/26/MNE7UHOOQ.DTL
>
For starters, you can turn off the "feature" that auto-runs code from
the inserted media.
/ji
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