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What’s in common between a photo frame and a procrastination, except a letter “P”?

 
Well, nothing, except, that if you bought or got a certain digital photo frame as a gift and procrastinated in using it, it might, for once, proved to be a very good move.

 
The word is once again, that your brand new digital photo frame may be infected with a virus.
“Among the frames reported to be infected this holiday season were a Samsung 8-inch frame sold by Amazon.com, an Element 9-inch frame sold by Circuit City and a Mercury 1.5-inch frame sold by Wal-Mart”.

 
Amazon.com has notified its customers about the Samsung frame, others said they weren’t aware of it or that they will remove the infected product from the shelves.
Infected photo frames may have been sold also by Best Buy, Costco and Target.

 
“…like computers, the frames are capable of carrying code that logs keystrokes, steals data and calls out to other malicious code once it’s installed itself on a PC.”
The worst thing about it, is that while all of this may be going on inside the user’s computer, the user may not notice or realize any of it.

 
I suggest that you read this article and follow the advice they offer, such as check your computer yourself, or find someone to do it.

 
If you don’t know anybody, try calling your closest Circuit City or Best Buy stores, they should be able to help you.

 
Source: SF Chronicle

 
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