Best Buy Sold Infected Digital Picture Frames
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Best Buy sold digital picture frames during the holidays that harbored malicious code able to spread to any connected Windows PC. It is not recalling the frames, however.
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Digital photo frames expand beyond standalone frames into home appliances.
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Companies are accused of infecting PCs, and then selling spyware-blocking software.
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After I reviewed digital picture frames in last weekâs column, I just could not believe the number of readers who wrote to say, âWhy buy an expensive frame just to show pictures? My computer has a screensaver that does the same thing! Why not just buy a cheap old Dell and dedicate it to showing [...].
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A Windows vulnerability has been announced after it was discovered that malicious code could be run by simply viewing a JPEG image file.
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Washington State has reached an agreement with the vendor of the Privasafe and SurfSafe service and software. The firm, Consumer Digital Services, is accused of deceptive marketing techniques and of misusing customers' personal information.
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Things get ugly for Buy.com customers when rebates go missing.
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Plus: eBay outlines policy on racist language. [News.com Extra]
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I saw an ad in yesterday's NY Times that offered the complete New Yorker magazine archive, including all the cartoons and ads, going back to 1920-something for a bit more than the hard disk would cost. The ad was from J&R, the company that makes the product is Pexagon. $149. Sounds like there might be DRM. I asked for something like this from the music business. A hundred gigs of popular music for $500, all pre-installed on the disk without DRM.  Someone at the New Yorker had this idea too? It's a good one. Bulk content for collector types. Another source of revenue. I want to run my own personal radio station, so having every song of a certain genre or from a certain period makes the diff.
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A Washington, D.C., woman has filed a lawsuit seeking US$54 million in damages from Best Buy after the electronics retailer lost her laptop computer last year.
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Millions of computer users are at risk of attack because flaws in the way Windows handles some images.
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Flawed software code used by numerous Microsoft applications to render images mean that a specially constructed image file could hijack a computer or spread a virus.
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FTC charges that New York firm infected victims' computers with adware.
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Some digital picture frames and other devices sold over the holidays may include malware.
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At Fry's this afternoon, where I bought two 500GB Firewire drives. Which it turns out I needed because after I got home all three external drives attached to my desktop were reported as damaged beyond repair by the new Mac OS. Coincidence? Lucky that I had exactly the hardware I needed to dig out of the mess? Who knows!
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Best Buy is under investigation by Connecticut's attorney general after consumers complained they were denied deals found at the electronic retailer's Web site by store employees who pulled up a lookalike site that listed higher prices on some merchandise.
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Hackers wasted little time in exploiting a flaw in the way Microsoft software handles graphics files. Internet watchers say they&#39;ve spotted infected images that could implant a back door into a Windows computer if they are viewed.