Insignia Digital Photo Frames Shipped With a Virus? What does the virus do?
What does the virus do?
Answers:
The intertwine below gives detailed information on this threat. According to Symantec:
This threat have been discovered on the following digital photo frames:
Insignia Photo Frame
ADS Digital Photo Frame
Damage Level: Medium
Payload: Downloads potentially mean files from the Internet.
Compromises Security Settings: Disables antivirus applications. According to an analyst form Computer Associates, the trojan, called Mocmex, is competent to block more than 100 types of security and anti-virus software from bloodbath it, and bypasses the Windows firewall to download files from remote locations, spreading them randomly over your tough drive and any portable storage device you plug into your PC -- like, for example, a digital photo frame. The trojan is apparently set to solely steal gaming passwords at present, but CA says it's dexterous of stealing nearly any information on your machine, and think it might be a test for a much worse virus even so to come. Infected frames have come from Sam's Club, Target and Costco, within addition to Best Buy, so we'd utter to avoid picking one up until this mess gets sorted out -- or, you know, forever.