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virus from iPods, digital photo frame and other unsuspe... - 3/15/2008 1:35:05 AM

BeachMystress

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Wow, some of today's manufactures want to save us the trouble of getting our own viruses. In the past few years, there have been instances of iPods and digital photo frames loading virus onto the purchasers PC. If you got an Insignia 10.4-inch Digital Picture frame from Best Buy this past Christmas it installs a Trojan that disables your security and anti virus software, bypasses the windows firewall to access the Internet and steels your passwords! Lovely huh? http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080314/ap_on_hi_te/factory_installed_viruses is one of the recent news articles for those of you who'd not heard of this before. (I'd not before tonight!) If you want to learn more about this scary trend of getting viruses from peripherals, google: "virus McDonalds" , "virus iPod" , "virus creative labs" , "virus TomTom" , "virus Seagate"

Well, at least now when you get a virus, you can tell your significant other that you weren't surfing porn.. the photo frame did it!

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RE: virus from iPods, digital photo frame and other uns... - 3/15/2008 1:37:45 AM

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*snicker*

*gropes the lovely BeachLady*

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RE: virus from iPods, digital photo frame and other uns... - 3/15/2008 1:52:47 AM

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:-O But did ya upload a virus with that grope? LMAO

*hugs* Hope things are still going great on the other coast!

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RE: virus from iPods, digital photo frame and other uns... - 3/15/2008 1:58:56 AM

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virus? ya mean like the icky I am currently feeling?? *sigh*

*smooch* come visit (after I feel better, of course..LOL)

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RE: virus from iPods, digital photo frame and other uns... - 3/15/2008 7:39:33 AM

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Yep when this news came out around Christmas it curtailed us from buying grandma a digital photo frame for Christmas.

I guess it all goes back down to don't piss people off in other countries who are manufacturing this stuff for us.
Maybe they would have adequate quality control then.

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