hi guys, as i asked above, if an USB Flash Drive/Pendrive that full with malware/virus, could it possible damage the LCD TV or any home entertainment devices that capable to run the USB Flash Drive/Pendrive once it had been plugged-in ?

I don't think it will damage any electronics equipments at all. These virus affects only PC running Microsoft Windows, and harmless if there is no windows program.

no.coz the virus code can only run on os that "supports" them.this is not digimon lol

malware and virus normally will effected to memory and files or download more virus into your hardware through internet. only certain virus is programmed to destroy the bios and hardware. therefore, depends which type the of virus is infected in your usb pendrive.

wow, destroy BIOS & hardware? so dangerous the infectious USB Pendrive it can be ?

but if kenot execute it cant happen rite, i believe it requires a common code to run it on. com and tv quite different in their start up code

to date, there are no virus that attacks electronic products, so you dont have to worry about this.

But as a precaution, its best to 'destroy' these viruses just in case you forgot and plug it in your PC.

what has that got to do with TV? TV can run OS to execute these virus code ar?

Newer TV has OS. But does TV OS recognize autorun.inf?

Most virus (if not all modern virii) drop a Autorun.inf on the thumb drive only. TVs should not recognize autorun, unless it's one of those TV with built in PC. Although if you have a thumb drive with virus on them, I recommend scanning it with good antivirus and deleting any virus on them anyway.

so enlighten me what OS does new TVs run on?

My Sony Bravia run on a version of Linux. has Ethernet port... but I think lacks USB.. Anyways.. Windows virus will not effect Linux/Unix system..

This post has been edited by BeastX: Jan 5 2010, 11:11 AM

interesting! can install apps?

Not really, probably proprietary interface to access (Similiar to the new Astro b.yond decoder running on Unix??) only user input is the remote control.

never heard of virus infected thumbdrives killing WDTV

dont know what it affect for TV and media players

But if viruses infected to memory cards placed on phones

will cause following one of the following symptons

1) battery hot and consume powers
2) auto send SMS, calling
3) memory cant detect
4) auto "off on" of phone
5) some functions cant be used

only today one customer sent in a phone complain that sometimes his phone black out, and at times only half LCD display only

after removing the virus then the phone is okay

mem card diagnose extract below

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Avira AntiVir Personal
Report file date: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 12:09

Scanning for 1499407 virus strains and unwanted programs.

Licensee : Avira AntiVir Personal - FREE Antivirus
Serial number : 0000149996-ADJIE-0000001
Platform : Windows Vista
Windows version : (plain) [6.1.7600]
Boot mode : Normally booted
Username : moomoos
Computer name : MOOMOOS-PC

Version information:
BUILD.DAT : 9.0.0.418 Bytes 12/2/2009 16:28:00
AVSCAN.EXE : 9.0.3.10 466689 Bytes 12/16/2009 09:27:22
AVSCAN.DLL : 9.0.3.0 40705 Bytes 2/27/2009 03:58:24
LUKE.DLL : 9.0.3.2 209665 Bytes 2/20/2009 04:35:49
LUKERES.DLL : 9.0.2.0 12033 Bytes 2/27/2009 03:58:52
VBASE000.VDF : 7.10.0.0 19875328 Bytes 11/6/2009 09:34:59
VBASE001.VDF : 7.10.1.0 1372672 Bytes 11/19/2009 09:35:24
VBASE002.VDF : 7.10.1.1 2048 Bytes 11/19/2009 09:35:26
VBASE003.VDF : 7.10.1.2 2048 Bytes 11/19/2009 09:35:26
VBASE004.VDF : 7.10.1.3 2048 Bytes 11/19/2009 09:35:26
VBASE005.VDF : 7.10.1.4 2048 Bytes 11/19/2009 09:35:26
VBASE006.VDF : 7.10.1.5 2048 Bytes 11/19/2009 09:35:26
VBASE007.VDF : 7.10.1.6 2048 Bytes 11/19/2009 09:35:26
VBASE008.VDF : 7.10.1.7 2048 Bytes 11/19/2009 09:35:26
VBASE009.VDF : 7.10.1.8 2048 Bytes 11/19/2009 09:35:26
VBASE010.VDF : 7.10.1.9 2048 Bytes 11/19/2009 09:35:27
VBASE011.VDF : 7.10.1.10 2048 Bytes 11/19/2009 09:35:27
VBASE012.VDF : 7.10.1.11 2048 Bytes 11/19/2009 09:35:27
VBASE013.VDF : 7.10.1.79 209920 Bytes 11/25/2009 09:35:31
VBASE014.VDF : 7.10.1.128 197632 Bytes 11/30/2009 09:35:33
VBASE015.VDF : 7.10.1.178 195584 Bytes 12/7/2009 09:35:37
VBASE016.VDF : 7.10.1.224 183296 Bytes 12/14/2009 09:35:40
VBASE017.VDF : 7.10.1.247 182272 Bytes 12/15/2009 09:27:22
VBASE018.VDF : 7.10.2.30 198144 Bytes 12/21/2009 00:22:13
VBASE019.VDF : 7.10.2.63 187392 Bytes 12/24/2009 02:07:40
VBASE020.VDF : 7.10.2.93 195072 Bytes 12/29/2009 02:14:15
VBASE021.VDF : 7.10.2.94 2048 Bytes 12/29/2009 02:14:16
VBASE022.VDF : 7.10.2.95 2048 Bytes 12/29/2009 02:14:17
VBASE023.VDF : 7.10.2.96 2048 Bytes 12/29/2009 02:14:19
VBASE024.VDF : 7.10.2.97 2048 Bytes 12/29/2009 02:14:19
VBASE025.VDF : 7.10.2.98 2048 Bytes 12/29/2009 02:14:20
VBASE026.VDF : 7.10.2.99 2048 Bytes 12/29/2009 02:14:20
VBASE027.VDF : 7.10.2.100 2048 Bytes 12/29/2009 02:14:20
VBASE028.VDF : 7.10.2.101 2048 Bytes 12/29/2009 02:14:20
VBASE029.VDF : 7.10.2.102 2048 Bytes 12/29/2009 02:14:22
VBASE030.VDF : 7.10.2.103 2048 Bytes 12/29/2009 02:14:22
VBASE031.VDF : 7.10.2.119 167424 Bytes 1/4/2010 02:14:53
Engineversion : 8.2.1.130
AEVDF.DLL : 8.1.1.2 106867 Bytes 12/15/2009 09:36:22
AESCRIPT.DLL : 8.1.3.7 594296 Bytes 1/5/2010 02:19:16
AESCN.DLL : 8.1.3.0 127348 Bytes 12/15/2009 09:36:19
AESBX.DLL : 8.1.1.1 246132 Bytes 12/15/2009 09:36:23
AERDL.DLL : 8.1.3.4 479605 Bytes 12/15/2009 09:36:18
AEPACK.DLL : 8.2.0.4 422263 Bytes 1/5/2010 02:18:46
AEOFFICE.DLL : 8.1.0.38 196987 Bytes 7/23/2009 02:59:39
AEHEUR.DLL : 8.1.0.192 2195833 Bytes 1/5/2010 02:18:04
AEHELP.DLL : 8.1.9.0 237943 Bytes 12/17/2009 09:27:21
AEGEN.DLL : 8.1.1.83 369014 Bytes 1/5/2010 02:15:24
AEEMU.DLL : 8.1.1.0 393587 Bytes 12/15/2009 09:35:46
AECORE.DLL : 8.1.9.1 180598 Bytes 12/15/2009 09:35:45
AEBB.DLL : 8.1.0.3 53618 Bytes 10/9/2008 07:32:40
AVWINLL.DLL : 9.0.0.3 18177 Bytes 12/12/2008 01:47:59
AVPREF.DLL : 9.0.3.0 44289 Bytes 12/16/2009 09:27:22
AVREP.DLL : 8.0.0.3 155905 Bytes 1/20/2009 07:34:28
AVREG.DLL : 9.0.0.0 36609 Bytes 12/5/2008 03:32:09
AVARKT.DLL : 9.0.0.3 292609 Bytes 3/24/2009 08:05:41
AVEVTLOG.DLL : 9.0.0.7 167169 Bytes 1/30/2009 03:37:08
SQLITE3.DLL : 3.6.1.0 326401 Bytes 1/28/2009 08:03:49
SMTPLIB.DLL : 9.2.0.25 28417 Bytes 2/2/2009 01:21:33
NETNT.DLL : 9.0.0.0 11521 Bytes 12/5/2008 03:32:10
RCIMAGE.DLL : 9.0.0.25 2438913 Bytes 5/15/2009 08:39:58
RCTEXT.DLL : 9.0.73.0 86785 Bytes 12/16/2009 09:27:22

Configuration settings for the scan:
Jobname.............................: ShlExt
Configuration file..................: C:\Users\moomoos\AppData\Local\Temp\1b7b4615.avp
Logging.............................: low
Primary action......................: interactive
Secondary action....................: ignore
Scan master boot sector.............: on
Scan boot sector....................: on
Boot sectors........................: H:,
Process scan........................: off
Scan registry.......................: off
Search for rootkits.................: off
Integrity checking of system files..: off
Scan all files......................: Intelligent file selection
Scan archives.......................: on
Recursion depth.....................: 20
Smart extensions....................: on
Macro heuristic.....................: on
File heuristic......................: medium

Start of the scan: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 12:09

Starting the file scan:

Begin scan in 'H:\' <PHONE CARD>
H:\other\ngcro2k3.sis
[DETECTION] Contains the SYMBOS/Commwarrior.K Symbian OS virus

Beginning disinfection:
H:\other\ngcro2k3.sis
[DETECTION] Contains the SYMBOS/Commwarrior.K Symbian OS virus
[NOTE] The file was moved to '4ba5bbe8.qua'!


End of the scan: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 12:09
Used time: 00:08 Minute(s)

The scan has been done completely.

38 Scanned directories
383 Files were scanned
1 Viruses and/or unwanted programs were found
0 Files were classified as suspicious
0 files were deleted
0 Viruses and unwanted programs were repaired
1 Files were moved to quarantine
0 Files were renamed
0 Files cannot be scanned
382 Files not concerned
2 Archives were scanned
0 Warnings
1 Notes

i wanna install MSN messenger...

hello? sis is a executable installer file.. for the phone OS.. so it could be virus
can the TV run programs?

well i just want to stress, wierd things do happen

in medical term, if diseases not detected they will be know as "cancer" it do spread with unknown problems

but for computer cases, it does attack boot files or just even files,
i have also seen (eg photo) files turn to unknown characters and symbols .... thus couldnt be read or deleted

TV well maybe .... media players, might have unknown problems

one more extract ....


Avira AntiVir Personal
Report file date: Wednesday, December 30, 2009 18:32

Scanning for 1487304 virus strains and unwanted programs.

Licensee : Avira AntiVir Personal - FREE Antivirus
Serial number : 0000149996-ADJIE-0000001
Platform : Windows Vista
Windows version : (plain) [6.1.7600]
Boot mode : Normally booted
Username : moomoos
Computer name : MOOMOOS-PC
Configuration settings for the scan:
Jobname.............................: ShlExt
Configuration file..................: C:\Users\moomoos\AppData\Local\Temp\ade23458.avp
Logging.............................: low
Primary action......................: interactive
Secondary action....................: ignore
Scan master boot sector.............: on
Scan boot sector....................: on
Boot sectors........................: G:,
Process scan........................: off
Scan registry.......................: off
Search for rootkits.................: off
Integrity checking of system files..: off
Scan all files......................: Intelligent file selection
Scan archives.......................: on
Recursion depth.....................: 20
Smart extensions....................: on
Macro heuristic.....................: on
File heuristic......................: medium

Start of the scan: Wednesday, December 30, 2009 18:32

Starting the file scan:

Begin scan in 'G:\' <PHONE CARD>
G:\MicrosoftPowerPoint.exe
[DETECTION] Is the TR/Drop.Muha.462027 Trojan

Beginning disinfection:
G:\MicrosoftPowerPoint.exe
[DETECTION] Is the TR/Drop.Muha.462027 Trojan
[NOTE] The file was moved to '4b9e2cbb.qua'!


End of the scan: Wednesday, December 30, 2009 18:32
Used time: 00:11 Minute(s)

The scan has been done completely.

24 Scanned directories
2157 Files were scanned
1 Viruses and/or unwanted programs were found
0 Files were classified as suspicious
0 files were deleted
0 Viruses and unwanted programs were repaired
1 Files were moved to quarantine
0 Files were renamed
0 Files cannot be scanned
2156 Files not concerned
65 Archives were scanned
0 Warnings
1 Notes

instead of scanning for virus , did you scan the photos folder?