As much as I hate what it does to my parents puter. I am fairly certian that Norton 360 will scan any recently attached USB file system before letting any autoruns fire off.<br><br>Ned<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 11:30 AM, Brian Pitts <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brian@polibyte.com">brian@polibyte.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">On Tue, 2008-12-30 at 10:51 -0500, Patrick Bartkus wrote:<br>
> Yesterday Ars Technica reported about more digital picture frames<br>
> infecting Windows computers with malware.<br>
><br>
> See:<br>
> <a href="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081229-walmart-amazon-bundle-malware-with-holiday-cheer.html" target="_blank">http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081229-walmart-amazon-bundle-malware-with-holiday-cheer.html</a><br>
> or <a href="http://tinyurl.com/a8mlzh" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/a8mlzh</a><br>
><br>
> One of the links in the article (<a href="http://tinyurl.com/2m7ot7" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/2m7ot7</a>) takes you<br>
> to a San Francisco Chronicle article from Feb 15, 2008.<br>
><br>
> The SFGate article reports that "Deborah Hale at SANS suggested that<br>
> PC users find friends with Macintosh or Linux machines and have them<br>
> check for malware before plugging any device into a PC."<br>
><br>
> My questions is - how could this be done? Could I boot with a Live CD<br>
> and then plugin and scan a USB picture frame for malware?<br>
><br>
<br>
</div></div>I'd love to know if there are any malware scanners for linux. I know for<br>
viruses there's ClamAV. The advice I've always seen is to use BartPE.<br>
<br>
<a href="http://ask.metafilter.com/110236/Cleaning-an-infected-laptop" target="_blank">http://ask.metafilter.com/110236/Cleaning-an-infected-laptop</a><br>
<br>
-Brian<br>
<br>
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