Malware in Photo Frames
The XMas holiday is now over and you may have gotten all fired up opening your electronic presents, but not for those who received the Mercury 1.5″ Digital Photo Frame, Samsung’s SPF-85H 8-inch digital photo frame, and others sold at Amazon, WalMart, and other stores.Some antivirus programs arn’t showing any viruses while others are saying they are infected. Amazon did their usual great work and issued an alert, but that doesn’t mean that other retailers don’t have the same issue.
Seeing as one group of anti-virus software are showing viruses and others are not reminds us that it’s wise to keep in mind that it might be a false positive. False positives happen and usually on more than one anti virus product since many copy each other instead of building their own tests from live viruses.But this shouldn’t make you feel any better because sometimes the anti-virus software thats giving alerts isn’t a false positive… It’s just better than some other antivirus program.
What a cool Christmas, gift, either as a giver or reciver.If it’s a real case of malware you do have online backup… Don’t you?One that provides versioned older, clean, copies of your files? One that simply lets you copy/paste from a network drive that is in reality your online backup?With all kinds of computer viruses, parasites, and other malware running around having a good internet backup is no longer an option, but, a critical strategy to keep your photos, files, music, and other data safe.
And advanced features like file versions, incremental block storage, and network drive arn’t expensive or frivelous anymore.These are essential features that seperate cheap online backup wannabees from real internet backup systems.So, why don’t you have Internet backup?It’s easy, indexpensive, and quality Internet backup services have the functionality that keeps your data available even if you get a malware infection.
