Here’s an interesting article: it talks about this new sophisticated Trojan that hides itself by propagating to digital storage devices, including digital frames.  While the Trojan’s intentions are to steal passwords, it really made me think about the idea of Trojans in digital frames.  You know that sooner or later there are going to be some malware developers that are going to exploit the digital frame and well… put inappropriate pictures onto people’s frames.  Oi… I could see that becoming quite the mess.

An insidious computer virus recently discovered on digital photo frames has been identified as a powerful new Trojan Horse from China that collects passwords for online games — and its designers might have larger targets in mind.

“It is a nasty worm that has a great deal of intelligence,” said Brian Grayek, who heads product development at Computer Associates, a security vendor that analyzed the Trojan Horse.

The virus, which Computer Associates calls Mocmex, recognizes and blocks antivirus protection from more than 100 security vendors, as well as the security and firewall built into Microsoft Windows. It downloads files from remote locations and hides files, which it names randomly, on any PC it infects, making itself very difficult to remove. It spreads by hiding itself on photo frames and any other portable storage device that happens to be plugged into an infected PC.[more]

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