Malware in Christmas Kids Cameras and Digital Frames
Christmas holidays just past and opening up your digital presents may have you all excited, but not for people who got the Mercury 1~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~The Holiday glow is now over and you may still be happy about your electronic presents, but not for you if you got the Mercury 1}.5″ Digital Photo Frame, the Mattel KidTough Camera, Samsung’s SPF-85H 8-inch digital photo frame, and others sold through WalMart, Amazon, and other sellers. Anti-virus programs are indicating that a virus is on the devices and other anti-virus software arn’t showing a virus at all they are infected~Anti-virus systems are saying they are infected while other systems arn’t indicating this at all}. 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 can happen, and do happen because alot of antivirus systems just copy their tests from each other instead of building their own definitions.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.
Christmas present, no matter if you received or gave one of these devices~What a cool Holiday, gift, either as a giver or reciver~What a wonderful present, whether as the receiver or giver of such a gift~What a cool Christmas present either as the giver or receiver}.If it’s not a false positive you do have an online backup… Don’t you now? One that lets you roll back any infected files to previous dates?One that lets you use copy and paste from your online backup like it’s a network drive?With the quantity of viruses and malware out there its crucial to have a regular online backup to keep your files, photos, and other data protected.
And internet backup with network drive and versioning are essential features instead of costly addons. These features are mainstream, tested, and make working with your data so much easier than with cheap fly by night online backup services.So, why don’t you have Internet backup? It’s cheap, easy, and the good internet backup services have the advanced features that will help you get your data back if you catch a computer virus or worse.