China is the departure location for a Trojan horse, Mocmex on its name. It comes in the digital photo frames or portable storage devices. It insinuated itself during the manufacturing process, is undetectable for the antivirus programs and can skip over the Windows firewall.
It should become a concerning problem because this virus could steal data from our computers. Although it takes passwords from online games, the free game play is not the only intention of its creators.
Its name was given by the Computer Associates. Can identify and block more than 100 security vendor’s antivirus protection. The security and firewall built into Microsoft Windows represents an unimportant obstacle for it.
Through photo frames and portable storage devices plugged into infected PCs, Mocmex downloads files, arbitrarily renames and hides them on infected PCs.Brian Grayek, the head of product development at Computer Associates, said that this malware was created by intelligent people and can’t be detected due to its hidden agenda.
Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos, said the virus’s emergence could be a mistake happened once with the fabrication when the "quality control may not always be all that it should be" and a conveyor belt could be the cause of spreading.
If you purchased the frames and didn’t have the right protection, the solving doesn’t seem far: the virus has been near us for some years and it could and should be destroyed.
Yet, Cluley advices the customers "to always scan any data-storage device they are plugging into their computer with an up-to-date antivirus program to make sure it is not harboring malicious code" because even if you "buy shrink-wrapped fruit in the supermarket, but you would still wash it before putting it in your mouth". In order to avoid their expensive treatment, the viruses of all nature, must be avoided through caution.
