Sony Cybershot Camera had Malware?!

Viruses and worms
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Ok so, I was going to pass some photos from my old camera to my laptop (kinda new) and Avast blocks the “autorun.inf” in the camera (which I didn’t know it had). So, it effectively locks it out in the virus chest, and I proceed to scan the F:/ directory (which was only the camera at the time) to find a Trojan and another odd type of malware I don’t know. Wasn’t luckily a root kit I think. So, after I successfully scanned the camera SD drive, I delete both of the, through Avast’s function, and now I’m just nervous.

I scanned the camera again, to find nothing. I am about to break that damn SD card… I haven’t used it in almost a year, and the netbook on which it was mostly used wasn’t exactly safe. I am scared now that my laptop could have obtained the virus :frowning:

I am running a boot-time scan, do you think I could have any virus in my laptop? It’s regularly safe, as I try to browse safely, and I scan every three days with either a quick or full scan. I have Avast’s latest engine and virus definitions.

Is my laptop safe? :frowning:

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I am running a boot-time scan, do you think I could have any virus in my laptop?
why boot scan? your question is impossible to answer from your info......the only way is to give us some logs to look at

follow this guide and attach (not copy and paste) Logs from malwarebytes / OTL / aswMBR
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=53253.0

when done, essexboy will be notified…

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Well it looks like you may already have plugged that camera memory card into an infected PC as essentially it shouldn’t have autorun.inf on it.

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Probably the SD card was infected due to my netbook long ago.

Well, once I finish the boot scan I will run a scan with any of those.

@Pondus: Do I get OTL, aswMBR, and Malwarebytes? Never used OTL before, or do I only need to scan with one and attach log?

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By the way, do I run Malwarebytes in normal Windows 7?

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you run all tre…and attach 4 logs
Malwarebytes quick scan log…
OTL…OTLtxt and extra.txt
aswMBR… aswmbr.txt

read the instructions…

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Ok, I will post MBAM log and if something comes up odd, I’ll scan w/ the others.

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the two other logs will see things that MBAM does not look for :wink:

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Oh, forgot that. Read the instructions wrongly. I really hope my laptop is almost clean, I factory reset it 4 months ago since I was careless… :frowning: and I don’t know why, but I feel factory resetting gives a “brand new laptop” feeling.

Boot-time scan ended, I will take a peek at it before installing MBAM.

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At least the boot-time scan gave me some hope. Nothing detected. Currently downloading MBAM since Internet is kind of slow.

By the way, the main question was to see if the SD camera had infected my laptop… is it possible that my laptop could have been infected in such a short period of time?

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Already scanning with MBAM :3 By the way, I know I am not experienced at all with this but, could MBR rootkits reach a computer that fast? Like, if an USB had malware, and the antivirus had detected it and according to it, cleansed the whole drive, could the PC had been suddenly infected?

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could the PC had been suddenly infected?
there could be other undetected malware... no security program have 100% detection
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Yeah. I will upload logs tomorrow though, have to sleep for a long day tomorrow… so far MBAM and Avast logs are providing me with total safety.

I have to admit that, I ejected the camera after cleansing it once with Avast. I will reformat the SD card on the old netbook on which I will reinstall Windows XP (3 years old, full of useless stuff).

And, @Pondus: Other undetected malware on the PC or SD card? Because if it’s SD card related it can be easily fixed, but if there had been any piece of malware that slipped up to my PC then I’d be worried. After all I’m virus paranoid… at least since I bought this laptop.