A touch sensational as headlines go but, not nearly anywhere near as sexy as it might seem. It turns out that the perennial favourite, the malware infected digital picture frame, has struck again. This happens enough nowadays to qualify as a bad joke.
Apparently,
An Amazon.com customer posted the warning a week ago to the online retailer’s user forum. It its note to customers, Amazon.com noted that a Samsung advisory had been issued for the SPF-85H, an 8-in. digital photo frame that Amazon sold for approximately $150 starting in October.
The Samsung SPF-85H is no longer available on Amazon.com.
“We have recently learned that Samsung has issued an alert… our records indicate that you have purchased one of the digital photo frames through the Amazon.com website and are therefore affected by this alert,” said Amazon in the note.
The root of the problem was malware that was resident on the accompanying CD. There was no explanation from the frame vendor, Samsung, as to how the malware came to be on the CD.
One pretty picture frame…and you’re done.
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Read the full story over on Network World.
Wow, that’s… It always impresses me that people don’t scan or test their software before it’s released.