Hello, Ion users. I'm not the LD, actually I'm the house sound guy, but I'm also the theater computer tech. We purchased our new Ion about a month ago. Works great! Learning to write macros for our moving lights, and do the standard stuff (way many years on analog consoles). So, the OS is a stripped-down, customized XP. I'm wondering if some aspects of this are going to become a problem in the future, and may be a problem for us now.
We have one local contractor who uses installed Ions in the other venues in the local area. He saves all his favorite setups on his own USB stick, often writing his roughs for his shows off site on his laptop, and transferring them via the USB stick. Contractor LD was last on the console a week ago.
Today, the venue LD was backing up some new settings to our USB stick, and we saw a popup window (very XP-ish) which stated "Do you like Bill Gates?" Yes-No buttons were below. Then a secondary window opened and stated the hard drive was being formatted... !!!! In a panic, he rushed through the shutdown and hit the power button. A few minutes later, we powered it back up, and all seems ok, but this was a scare indeed.
I think our contractor LD may have passed a joke program into our console from his USB stick. So, how do I remove these things? And, how do I protect against such in the future? Normal AV programs have too much footprint to just run installed, and the OS probably does not have the components to run them.
Do note, I maintain several stand-alone (no net-connection) recording PC's at local project studios, and my clients are quite used to manually enabling/disabling the installed AV, and manually updating definitions downloaded to a separate computer. One once had his machine trashed by a trojan brought in with a musician's tracks done at home, so it can happen.
With the problems of autorun vulnerability in XP and the ensuing trojans spreding via USB and shared drives, what can be done?
