Virus On Camera?

[Shelley S.]

I have a Pentax K200 camera. The first few times I experimented in RAW, I would get a virus warning when downloading my picutres. I switched over to JPEG and it seemed OK. However, for a long while now, whenever I download my photos onto my laptop, I get the little virus warning popping up again. Sometimes it will say there are only 2, sometimes it will have as many as 10. They aren't viruses per se, but more like spyware or something like that. Every time it happens it states that there is minimal to no risk.

I'm just wondering if this is something that is/was in the program that came with the camera, or if it is in fact something ON my camera. How can I permanently remove it? It's annoying that it happens every time I download pics from my camera. Does anyone else have this problem (with this same type of camera or a different one)? What can I do, aside from doing a virus scan every time I dowload pics (which can be quite frequently)?

[Digidave]

What software is telling you that there is a virus? There must be a way to tell it to ignore that file type. A RAW file shouldn't have anything in it that would be construed as a virus.

[dcclark]

I suppose it is possible that a virus could have infected your storage card while you had it attached to the camera -- seems unlikely, but possible. Do you reformat your storage card after every download? That may clear out any gunky files. I'd give it a try.

[candleman]

maybe its just your antivirus software detecting the new connection and data transfer and spazzing out.

possibly.

i could be wrong.
i have made a mistake this year so its entirely possible.

[gazza147]

Hi ,I had this on my K100D and afther some asking around found out it was my spy ware not reconising that type of file , so i put a question on one of these techies site and he told me how to change the settings in my spy ware .I can find the site I used or find the email as since then I have change my pc and lost a few files on the swap ,sorry ,But give it a try your self there are lots of them about .or contact your spyware suppiler.again sorry I can't help with what it is you have to do .

[Jamfke]

Originally Posted by candleman

i could be wrong.
i have made a mistake this year so its entirely possible.

Sorry to hijack this thread, but this is hilarious. If you don't mind, I'm going to put this in my sig.

[candleman]

Originally Posted by Jamfke

Sorry to hijack this thread, but this is hilarious. If you don't mind, I'm going to put this in my sig.

lolol
awesome stuff mate.

[Shelley S.]

Originally Posted by dcclark

I suppose it is possible that a virus could have infected your storage card while you had it attached to the camera -- seems unlikely, but possible. Do you reformat your storage card after every download? That may clear out any gunky files. I'd give it a try.

I'm new to digital photography...how would I reformat the storage card? I assume by storage card you mean the memory card that's in the camera?

[Shelley S.]

Originally Posted by Digidave

What software is telling you that there is a virus? There must be a way to tell it to ignore that file type. A RAW file shouldn't have anything in it that would be construed as a virus.

It's the Trend Micro PC-cillin Internet security that I have installed on my computer. It gives me the message with RAW and JPEG though...

[dcclark]

Originally Posted by Shelley S.

I'm new to digital photography...how would I reformat the storage card? I assume by storage card you mean the memory card that's in the camera?

Yes, that's what I mean. Most cameras have a menu option in the camera itself called "Reformat Card" or something.