MUST READ: password stealing viruses from electronics!!!!

EarlVonKippler · 03-14-2008, 00:56

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/ptech/0...rss_topstories

holy fucking shit. read this one. seems chinese electronic crap may have viruses installed in their software.

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It's the digital equivalent of the recent series of tainted products traced to China, including toxic toothpaste, poisonous pet food and toy trains coated in lead paint.

perhaps this thread should be in security? i dont know. but you need to read this.

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Jerry Askew, a Los Angeles computer consultant, bought a Uniek digital picture frame to surprise his 81-year-old mother for her birthday. But when he added family photos, it tried to unload a few surprises of its own.

When he plugged the frame into his Windows PC, his antivirus program alerted him to a threat. The $50 frame, built in China and bought at Target, was infected with four viruses, including one that steals passwords.

AlphaGeek · 03-14-2008, 02:06

Nice find. Bad news.

AG

Johned · 03-14-2008, 02:13

I read that a few hours ago. Amazing lack of quality control in those plants.

Oleg · 03-14-2008, 03:42

More unfounded anti-Chinese propaganda thrust upon us by the American media, woohoo

NastyCenturion · 03-14-2008, 08:17

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Originally Posted by Oleg

More unfounded anti-Chinese propaganda thrust upon us by the American media, woohoo

u might be right but would u take the risk ?

Usurper · 03-14-2008, 08:47

Years ago i bought some cheap blank 1.44 diskettes.
But they wern't blank at all.
They all had the "WelcomB" virus on them, and they were fresh out
of the box!

MarcusLucius · 03-14-2008, 09:03

ahhh well, were all lookin forward to that chinese planet tho,
teleporting to it guarantees uploading 234908309 viruses to your machine then

NastyCenturion · 03-14-2008, 09:04

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Originally Posted by MarcusLucius

ahhh well, were all lookin forward to that chinese planet tho,
teleporting to it guarantees uploading 234908309 viruses to your machine then

hope the GC will still be safe

MarcusLucius · 03-14-2008, 09:06

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Originally Posted by NastyCenturion

hope the GC will still be safe

hm im at work now, so i cant look, but didnt the GC reader has also that tiny "made in china" on his back

Tussi · 03-14-2008, 09:26

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Originally Posted by NastyCenturion

u might be right but would u take the risk ?

Unless you want to die instantly by your own hand you'll have to take risks.

The normal things you do with a high risk are commonly accepted - like crashing a car (or be driven over by one), industrial food, smoking, alcohol, medication, environmental pollution, peak oil, airplane traveling, getting stung by a moskito while in holiday some thousand KM away from home or murdered by the jelous husband, entering a hospital (both as guest or patient), loosing while playing the lottery, backdoors in windows etc.

For this stuff we're freely willing to eg. pay the price of mobility.

But there are some worth a newspaper headline and they all have only a very slim to nil chance of hitting you - like terrorism (with or without airplanes), winning a lottery... or chinese equipment with spyware included.

So please get real.

Tussi