Why do SD cards lack firewall?

[phenologist]

Greetings,

I have a virus on a digital camera SD drive. The photo's are locked in. I cannot explore the file directory of the sd card using windows explorer.

So far i have tried scanning with: AVG, Trojan Hunter, panda cloud based scan and Hitman Pro (which scans the whole computer)...No change.

I am able to view the photos from my camera's view screen.

Strangely enough, Google's Picasa is able to import some of the pictures, but many pictures have a write lock on the photo's. It was not me that "locked" the photos. The photos that are not "locked" can be locked and unlocked. The photos that are "locked" cannot be unlocked.

So my question is obvious: Why do SD cards lack firewall?

I am using net cafe's in Asia and there are too many virus's...

Once i recover and backup those photo's i can format the drive -Any suggestions how to unlock the locked photo's before i wipe?

Thank you so much, really anything would help (Including how to rig an sd card with firewall((is it as simple a riggin a usb same same but different)))

Pheno

 

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Here is one possible solution (someone else may have a better solution).

Anyway you can get your hands on an extra hard drive?

You are going to have to make an installation disk of Linux Ubuntu. You can download the .iso file here:

http://releases.ubuntu.com/lucid/

It is the top download link on the web page and is about 680 megabytes in size (the link is entitled "PC (Intel x86) desktop CD"). Burn the installation disk then use it to install on the new hard drive. Likely any data will be destroyed on the new hard drive so make sure there is nothing valuable on the drive before installing the new operating system. Unplug your old Windows hard drive and install Linux Ubuntu 32-bit version 10.04 on the new hard drive.

Once the Linux operating system is installed on the new hard drive you can likely access the pictures using Linux.