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Grrr! Memory card worm in wellknown store
blossomhill_2
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My camera memory card has never been used anywhere except in my camera and my PC
Until last week when I used it in a large wellknown supermarket's photo shop to order a personalised gift
When I next put it into my PC, my antivirus detected a worm (some sort of tracking) :mad: :mad:
Successfully quarantined but Grrrrrrrr! - couldn't the photobooth use some antivirus to help customers avoid this!
Receipt has a survey "how did we do" - I am going to enoy filling it in!
Until last week when I used it in a large wellknown supermarket's photo shop to order a personalised gift
When I next put it into my PC, my antivirus detected a worm (some sort of tracking) :mad: :mad:
Successfully quarantined but Grrrrrrrr! - couldn't the photobooth use some antivirus to help customers avoid this!
Receipt has a survey "how did we do" - I am going to enoy filling it in!
You never know how far-reaching something good, that you may do or say today, may affect the lives of others tomorrow
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If it's had malicious software put on it, name and shame! (Make sure you're right though, a lot of antivirus programs throw up false alerts)."Never underestimate the mindless force of a government bureaucracyseeking to expand its power, dominion and budget"Jay Stanley, American Civil Liberties Union.0
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In all likelihood it came via your PC not the photo booth.'The More I know about people the Better I like my Dog'
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Did you go back and inform them?blossomhill wrote: »My camera memory card has never been used anywhere except in my camera and my PC
When I next put it into my PC, my antivirus detected a worm (some sort of tracking) :mad: :mad:
Successfully quarantined but Grrrrrrrr! - couldn't the photobooth use some antivirus to help customers avoid this!
Receipt has a survey "how did we do" - I am going to enoy filling it in!I'd rather be an Optimist and be proved wrong than a Pessimist and be proved right.0 -
blossomhill wrote: »When I next put it into my PC, my antivirus detected a worm (some sort of tracking) :mad: :mad:
Successfully quarantined but Grrrrrrrr! - couldn't the photobooth use some antivirus to help customers avoid this!
If it was just a tracker it sounds more like something that the photo booth uses to access your memory card and leaves something behind rather then a virus.
What was the name of it?"If you no longer go for a gap, you are no longer a racing driver" - Ayrton Senna0 -
As well as giving more information on what was found, if it IS a real worm/virus then the store needs to be informed or it will continue to affect other customers.
The photo machine is likely a PC underneath so could have picked it up off of another customer.0
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