During the past few weeks, viruses have been discovered in digital photoframes, smartphones, battery chargers and many other USB devices. The fact that they can all be plugged into computers implies that they have the potential to infect your machine. In one of the cases, they found three viruses on a phone.
The US Computer Emergency Readiness Team issued a warning, informing users of a threat from a basic usb battery charger that came with "optional software" that contained a Trojan (a program that allows hackers to remotely control your machine). This optional software has been around for 3 years, which means that it's hard to tell how many users have been infected. The photoframe had the same issue.
The manufacturers would've most likely accidentally passed on the viruses without realizing. The chances are, the factory in China was putting malware onto the electronic devices accidentally due to bad virus detection in place (if any at all).
Have you bought a digital photoframe, smartphone or battery charger recently? You should probably scan it if you have! Better safe than sorry.
Til' Next Time,
-Andy
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