i think lots of participants had the virus originally in their cards, hence infecting the downloading station coms, and hence passing it on to others.
i think it's participants' responsibility to ensure their own cards are virus free, it just takes some irresponsible users to harm everyone, including the organizers. I doubt the organizers would wanna spend extra time to scan everyone's cards before allowing downloading, the logistics might turn out to be a nightmare.
i believe their coms/macs are "wiped clean" before being used for the competition, and another "wipe" after the competition. So i guess, it's just plain unlucky for those who kena. I too found some on my card, after discovering my sd card had something "service manger.exe" or similar at the printing station. Did a scan on my own com, cleared it, download the photos, put back the card into cam and format. Probably will do another full scan on my com later. :bsmilie:
Another year's marathon gone, lets look forward to the next, and hope there's more improvements (actually last year, i too kena virus on sd card, did the same procedure too).
