Samsung Shipped Infected Digital Picture Frames


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Samsung Shipped Infected Digital Picture Frames

Agam Shah, IDG News Service

December 24, 2008 3:50 PM PST

"For the second year in a row, some of those digital photo frames lying under the Christmas tree may come with a nasty surprise.

Samsung says that CDs that shipped with many models of its digital photo frames may have included a malicious Trojan horse program that gives cyber criminals access to the PC.

The malicious software, known as W32.Sality.AE lies in the XP version of Samsung's Frame Manager 1.08 software, which ships with many other models of Samsung frames.

A malware reaches a host PC only if Frame Manager is loaded from the CD, which can convert the digital photo frame to a USB monitor. It doesn't affect Windows Vista users. W32.Sality.AE has been known in the security community since April and is detected by antivirus software.

CDs with malicious code may have also shipped with the digital photo frame models SPF-75H, SPF-76H, SPF-85H, SPF-85P, SPF-105P, Samsung wrote in an alert (pdf) it issued in late November. "

Read more here: http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/156050/samsung_shipped_infected_digital_picture_frames.html?tk=rl_noinform

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