New virus infection vector

[HeyBub]

"There's nothing quite like waking up on your holiday of choice to the gift
of a shiny new gadget that adorned your wishlist for the last couple of
months-only to find out that, upon plugging it into your PC, it attempts to
install a virus. Recipients of several different models of photo frames from
Wal-Mart, Amazon, and other retailers experienced this new holiday downer,
which is just a reflection of a continuing upward trend in malware over the
holidays."

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081229-walmart-amazon-bundle-malware-with-holiday-cheer.html

It's getting bad when you can't even trust a picture of your new
grand-puppy!

 

[Bob I]

maybe they want to be like Apple! ;-)

 

[Gardier]

"There's nothing quite like waking up on your holiday of choice to the
gift of a shiny new gadget that adorned your wishlist for the last
couple of months-only to find out that, upon plugging it into your PC,
it attempts to install a virus. Recipients of several different models
of photo frames from Wal-Mart, Amazon, and other retailers experienced
this new holiday downer, which is just a reflection of a continuing
upward trend in malware over the holidays."

Is this a new one or another recurrence of Mocmex. This was around quite
a while ago and as I remember it was very hard to remove.

 

[David H. Lipman]

From: "Gardier" <[email protected]>


| Is this a new one or another recurrence of Mocmex. This was around quite
| a while ago and as I remember it was very hard to remove.

Yes, this is NOT new.