[ale] Checking photo frames for Windows malware

[brian at polibyte.com (Brian Pitts)]

On Tue, 2008-12-30 at 10:51 -0500, Patrick Bartkus wrote:
> Yesterday Ars Technica reported about more digital picture frames
> infecting Windows computers with malware.
> 
> See:
> http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081229-walmart-amazon-bundle-malware-with-holiday-cheer.html
> or http://tinyurl.com/a8mlzh
> 
> One of the links in the article (http://tinyurl.com/2m7ot7) takes you
> to a San Francisco Chronicle article from Feb 15, 2008. 
> 
> The SFGate article reports that "Deborah Hale at SANS suggested that
> PC users find friends with Macintosh or Linux machines and have them
> check for malware before plugging any device into a PC."
> 
> My questions is - how could this be done? Could I boot with a Live CD
> and then plugin and scan a USB picture frame for malware?
> 

I'd love to know if there are any malware scanners for linux. I know for
viruses there's ClamAV. The advice I've always seen is to use BartPE.

http://ask.metafilter.com/110236/Cleaning-an-infected-laptop

-Brian