Trojan On Memory Card

A very frustrated Friend came to me at the weekend with a XD memory card that was corrupted when she got the camera back after lending it to the Coach from her Kids Footy Club.
Inserting it into my USB 2 cardreader and running Avast yes it responded with a Virus Alarm "Win32:Trojan-gen" {other}
Avast had no problems in Quarantining it.
Some of the pictures were corrupted as well sort of 3 pics in one.
My question is can you transfer a Virus from a Memory Card onto your hard drive, or vise versa.
hawk22

 

The basic answer to your question is a YES.
The memory card is NO different than any other storage medium, weither it be floppy, cd, hard drive.
One the contaninated file is there and you activate it, it will infect your system, if not protected.

 

Hi thanks, my next question would be, as I don't know much on how internal camera memory works, is there the chance that her 32mb internal memory would be infected as well??
hawk22

 

As far as I know, the internal memory should be safe. As redearl confirmed, infection of your PC is possible, and if it happened, it would have been via the autorun/autoplay feature. I'd recommend you create a log file to check. You can post it or look for the telltales yourself, then post the log(s) if present. What you're looking for in the log(s) are registry entries under the following key.

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MountPoints2

• Download RSIT by random/random and save it to your desktop.
• Double click RSIT.exe to start the tool and click Continue at the disclaimer.
• When the scan completes it will open a log named log.txt maximized, and a log named info.txt minimized.
• Please post the contents of log.txt here.

 

Thank you so much for your reply. My system is ok I did not auto-run the card as I was aware of some virus on it.
I just scanned the folder and moved the Trojan into Quarantine, that seemed to have done the trick.
I have done a bit searching on this Trojan Win32:-gen {other} and it is quite a common one.
I told her to run Kaspersky On-line scan on her PC to find out if her system is infected.
She is worried about the Camera $600.- and is sending it to Olympus for inspection.
I will find out more soon.
thanks again
hawk22