Viruses in USB’s / Cards / (even photoframes?)

We all know the risks (or do we?) of plugging things into a PC such as flash drives storage cards and disks, I recently had an issue where one of my directors had plugged a brand new (sealed) USB drive into his laptop copied a couple of spreadsheets onto the drive to transfer them to his desktop PC. On plugging the USB drive into his main pc our security (NOD32 by Eset) kicked in and locked down a ‘known threat’ this was kind of disturbing as I knew the drive... 

Fireworks and Snow Leopard

It seems there is battle happening inside my iMac between Adobe Fireworks and Snow Leopard  OS! Initially I presumed it was probably my lack of re-booting/updating that was causing the problem so I carried out the necessary updates (480mb!) for my CS4 design package, re-booted the iMac and hoped for the best. I though as I had dismissed 480mb worth of updates for a while that was the most likely thing to be at the root of this problem. Wrong! Fireworks still hangs when...