You don't need to sacrifice your work to print out those vacation pics.
Here's a good point: "Public kiosks, such as those used for photo printing, are exposed to thousands of USB drives and other media every month." So it's likely that the flash drives or memory cards you plug into PC-based kiosks may infect your home or office computer.
Lifehacker offers a straightforward solution. Once your removable media has served its purpose, simply format them on a PC booted up with a Live CD. Live CDs are self-contained boot discs (usually running a variant of Linux) that let you use a computer without accessing—or installing—anything on your hard disk. Your files and operating system remain safe, as you wipe any potential threats from your potentially dirty thumb drives and camera media cards.
A personal favorite is the Ubuntu installer. While it lets you install the popular Linux variant on your computer, its trial mode is for all intents and purposes doubles as a Live CD.
Use Read-Only Media to Protect Against Kiosk-Propagated Viruses
Don't be a div. Those Kiosks are running Windows. They are bound to get infected. Seeing as some of them handle payment they may even be activly targeted themselves! You can never be too careful with the security and integrity of your data and systems
sudo apt-get install gparted ntfsprogs
No point in showing off your linux skills here, nobody will be impressed.
http://research.pandasecurity.com/panda-usb-and-autorun-vaccine/
also, a kiosk would only need to access the drive in a read only mode, which could easily lead to better security measures on their end too.
lol same, the size of my g9 CMOS is way big thus big ass paper and a big ass printer
I think you are missing the end goal here. People don't really care so much as to raise hell with the kiosk. They are using the kiosk to get to you. Oh and FYI, Microsoft is not the only OS that can be hacked. It's just the one people like to talk about so much and that is because it is the most used OS. Go take a look at a free program called metasploit and see how fast I can get into your system. As for your AV, it is always one step behind as with all other AV programs.
Lifehacker is aware that the majority of kiosk customers aren't very computer literate, yes? And if you have the technical expertise to use a Live CD then you're going to be more than capable of checking for, and clearing out, any virus protection from the flash card or thumb drive.
What we really need is for computers to state that NOTHING can be installed on a machine without permission, and it KILLS anything that automatically runs if it isn't part of the OS or a known good process.