Digital Picture Frame Virus traced back to China
Recently, a powerful virus was discovered in digital photo frames. It has now been identified as a Trojan Horse from China that has the ability to collect passwords for online games.
According to Brian Grayek, head of product development at Computer Associates, a security vendor that analyzed the Trojan Horse, “It is a nasty worm that has a great deal of intelligence.”
The virus has been identified as Mocmex. It can recognize and block antivirus protection from over 100 security vendors and also the security and firewall built into Microsoft Windows.
Other than that the Mocmex virus also downloads files from remote locations and hidden files, which it then randomly names on any PC it infects making it extremely difficult to remove this virus.
Further, this virus hides on photo frames and other portable storage devices that happen to be plugged into an infected PC.
“This would be a nuclear bomb of malware,” he stated.
As of now what is known is that this particular Trojan Horse has its roots in China. However, Grayek would not name the group.
Some time ago, we reported about Best Buy selling a particular model of a digital frame which contained malware. However, that was not so serious as the case of this present one.
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March 26th, 2008 at 10:20 am
Why won’t Grayek name the group behind this virus? Who is he trying to protect? He is doing a severe disservice to American consumers by shielding the originators of this malware.
May 29th, 2008 at 2:08 pm
Does the same problem/risk exist in Insignia brand HD LCD TVs (from Best Buy)? At times I use my tv screen as a larger computer display, as well as to listen to internet radio stations and run them through the tv and on into my home stereo system.
Also, what about these add-on photo viewers that plug into the tv to display photos from memory cards or flash memory drives?
Thanks