[ale] Checking photo frames for Windows malware

[Ned Williams]

As much as I hate what it does to my parents puter. I am fairly certian that
Norton 360 will scan any recently attached USB file system before letting
any autoruns fire off.

Ned


On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 11:30 AM, Brian Pitts <brian at polibyte.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 2008-12-30 at 10:51 -0500, Patrick Bartkus wrote:
> > Yesterday Ars Technica reported about more digital picture frames
> > infecting Windows computers with malware.
> >
> > See:
> >
> http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081229-walmart-amazon-bundle-malware-with-holiday-cheer.html
> > or http://tinyurl.com/a8mlzh
> >
> > One of the links in the article (http://tinyurl.com/2m7ot7) takes you
> > to a San Francisco Chronicle article from Feb 15, 2008.
> >
> > The SFGate article reports that "Deborah Hale at SANS suggested that
> > PC users find friends with Macintosh or Linux machines and have them
> > check for malware before plugging any device into a PC."
> >
> > My questions is - how could this be done? Could I boot with a Live CD
> > and then plugin and scan a USB picture frame for malware?
> >
>
> I'd love to know if there are any malware scanners for linux. I know for
> viruses there's ClamAV. The advice I've always seen is to use BartPE.
>
> http://ask.metafilter.com/110236/Cleaning-an-infected-laptop
>
> -Brian
>
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