For viruses, worms etc...
Good practice to NOT use any thumb/USB drive as provided by a visiting LD/company, direct into your console, unless you have verified the drive is bug free.
Had this happen yesterday, when an SM from a visiting company gave me her thumb drive, supposedly with a USITT ASCII cue file to be read from my Ion. I usually use my laptop for this (which has Zone Alarm on it), but instead and to save time, decided to read the USB direct at the console. I was lucky the drive was a mess and I couldn't find the file I was supposed to find, thus loaded nothing, then took it to the laptop where Zone Alarm immediately found and quarantined a file called "worm.Win32.AutoRun.dui". Much conversation then ensued with ETC tech support about the likely hood of getting the bug into the Ion, which was un-likely.
Scared the crap out of me.
FWIW, it's a Royal PITA to have to re-image a lighting console, as essentially ETC has to send a USB bootable drive to format and re-load the OS.
EDIT: As follow up, consoles do not come with, nor can they have anti-virus software running on them, for lots of reasons
Lessened learned
Good practice to NOT use any thumb/USB drive as provided by a visiting LD/company, direct into your console, unless you have verified the drive is bug free.
Had this happen yesterday, when an SM from a visiting company gave me her thumb drive, supposedly with a USITT ASCII cue file to be read from my Ion. I usually use my laptop for this (which has Zone Alarm on it), but instead and to save time, decided to read the USB direct at the console. I was lucky the drive was a mess and I couldn't find the file I was supposed to find, thus loaded nothing, then took it to the laptop where Zone Alarm immediately found and quarantined a file called "worm.Win32.AutoRun.dui". Much conversation then ensued with ETC tech support about the likely hood of getting the bug into the Ion, which was un-likely.
Scared the crap out of me.
FWIW, it's a Royal PITA to have to re-image a lighting console, as essentially ETC has to send a USB bootable drive to format and re-load the OS.
EDIT: As follow up, consoles do not come with, nor can they have anti-virus software running on them, for lots of reasons
Lessened learned
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