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- jhuebel, on 03/14/2008, -0/+23A friend of mine got one of the digital photo frames (Insignia, was it?) that had a trojan on it.
- judicar, on 03/14/2008, -10/+27That guy looks like he deserves a virus.
- greenlight2001, on 03/14/2008, -3/+20Eww... was it used? You might want to lysol that ***** down.
- deaftly, on 03/14/2008, -1/+13Sony has been doing this for a while with CD's.
- mal1964, on 03/14/2008, -0/+9"Best Buy, the biggest consumer electronics outlet in the U.S., said it pulled its affected China-made frames from the shelves and took "corrective action" against its vendor. But the company declined repeated requests to provide details.
Sam's Club and Target say they are investigating complaints but have not been able to verify their frames were contaminated"
Best Buy did it right. - autmare, on 03/14/2008, -2/+9well that sucks .
- miked123, on 03/14/2008, -0/+6"If the testing computer is infected — say, by a worker who used it to charge his own infected iPod — the digital germ can spread to anything else that gets plugged in."
Yeah, all those Chinese factory workers with their iPods... - andywebb95, on 03/14/2008, -1/+6A new meaning to the phrase "value added"
- WoundedCow, on 03/14/2008, -3/+8The 8-track in my Olds never got a virus....I'm just sayin'
I've found that a little preventive medicine, keeping all my anti-virus up to date has kept all our computers free for more than two years....knock on wood.
That and I like my picture frames to be filled with one picture, say my sons or my dog, and let them stay that way. I've got maybe 30 photos on the walls of my living and dining room and not one of them has tried to corrupt my computers. - Inquisition, on 03/14/2008, -0/+5I expected that.
- Cronus6, on 03/14/2008, -4/+9iPods aren't worth the cost to begin with...
- cshaaban, on 03/14/2008, -4/+8Stories like this that remind me why I like cassettes.
- inactive, on 03/14/2008, -0/+4No one expects anthrax in toilet paper. Not even the inquisition.
- SpaceMonkeyZero, on 03/14/2008, -4/+7iPods would cost $50 more if they were made in the U.S.
I'd say that's worth the extra cost. - inactive, on 03/14/2008, -1/+4I too have seen the digital photo frame with the trojan. It was some cheap no name brand they were almost giving away around the holidays. The Trojan is written directly into the driver so that you cant remove it.
- Unlgued, on 03/14/2008, -1/+4Those things'll give you herpes.
- ThePirateParty, on 03/14/2008, -2/+4And rootkits *cough*Sony*cough*
lol - orangetiki, on 03/14/2008, -0/+2can we leave china now?
- orangetiki, on 03/14/2008, -0/+2that's a virus within itself. Nice
- inactive, on 03/14/2008, -0/+2Yes I would pay 50 bucks extra to not get the herp.
- Atomic1fire, on 03/15/2008, -0/+1Dont you mean iknockoff
- MrViklund, on 03/14/2008, -0/+1Isn't this what Viruses and Worms are all about? The Viruses have prevailed!
Maybe people should update their computers and use Antivirus software. - emansxt, on 03/15/2008, -0/+1Bought a 2 gig MP3 player from fry's factory sealed that came with a virus. Emperex was the brand name I presume.
- Yage2006, on 03/14/2008, -0/+1I have never heard of a brand new ipod coming with a virus.
- inactive, on 08/11/2008, -0/+1"Lolcats" are on Saturday, *****. Fail.
- Atomic1fire, on 03/15/2008, -0/+1Or gold farmers and factory workers being good friends
- inactive, on 08/11/2008, -0/+1Right, because viruses can just magically spread from electrical device to electrical device, regardless of operating system, CPU instruction set, etc, bind to the firmware's code correctly, and execute on command when plugged in. This article / thread is full of hilarity.
- inactive, on 03/14/2008, -1/+2Now in new colors and a complementary virus!
- inactive, on 03/14/2008, -0/+1Virus free as far as you know. Your virus software could have just missed it, you wouldn't know.
Oh I miss my Linux box. - pjpete, on 03/14/2008, -1/+2"Computer users have been warned for years about virus threats from downloading Internet porn and opening suspicious e-mail attachments. Now they run the risk of picking up a digital infection just by plugging a new gizmo into their PCs."
NOW? Now they run the risk? Is this from oldnews.com? I bought an AST Computer over 10 years ago (P100! WOOHOO!) and the damn restore disk had a virus. The CD from the manufacturer installed a virus every time you restored the machine. - inactive, on 03/14/2008, -0/+1Screw up their I-poops and they lose their will to fight!
- Heiminator, on 03/14/2008, -3/+4you obliviously know nothing about good music ;-)
- valkyries, on 03/14/2008, -0/+1its not the OS of the frame handing out viruses, its the memory cards that u load photos onto thats doing it.
- mal1964, on 03/15/2008, -0/+1That's what it all about, but you use to get so much more, Here is a company that does it right;
Think Big: Ritz-Carlton Hotels
Having experienced customer service on a small scale first hand, I wanted to see how it could be delivered on a very large scale and how the biggest companies made it happen. In my previous life as MD of a computer software company, I traveled often to the USA and whenever I could, I stayed in Ritz-Carlton hotels. Why? Because I found them to be the most consistently high-quality hotel chain. There are some very good independent hotels but in a new place, it was a comfort to know that I was going to stay somewhere that I knew would be good before I got there. It’s not just me - JD Power do random guest satisfaction surveys on a monthly basis and Ritz Carlton currently scores 92% across the whole chain (compared to an industry average of 70%)
It is a big chain – over 19,000 employees and nearly fifty properties worldwide. I asked Theo Gilbert, VP of Training and Development, how Rtiz-Carlton ensures that they achieve a consistently high level of customer service. The secret is “very aligned employees and leadership.” In practice this means having very clear, often-repeated ‘gold standards’ of service – each employee has a card containing the twenty ‘basics’ and the mantra “we are ladies and gentlemen serving ladies and gentlemen.” The text on this card is on their website (www.ritzcarlton.com/html_corp/about_us/mystique.asp). It means reinforcing these standards by discussion and example around a given daily topic at the ‘daily line-up’ that occurs at the beginning of every shift, for every team, everywhere in the world. It means that employees are involved in planning their work and are encouraged – proselytised is more accurate – to ‘break away’ to help serve a customer (for example escorting someone somewhere rather than give directions).
It’s easy to say all this and to have a mission statement and so on. How do you get it to happen every day in the real world? It starts with recruitment and training. The Ritz-Carlton interview is structured and the same worldwide. In addition, a couple of employees from the candidate’s prospective department join the interview as well and as with Pret A Manger, they get a strong say in whether someone is hired or not. Once hired, a new employee gets two full days of orientation before they start work and is guaranteed to get 250-300 hours of structured, formal training in their first year. The staff are trained in what Gilbert called “aggressive hospitality” which isn’t as frightening as it sounds. It means how to live to up to the standards they proclaim; for example using guest’s names, avoiding slang, saying ‘good morning’ or ‘good afternoon’ instead of ‘hi’ (try it for a day, it’s not easy), or how to solve guest problems. - bobdigi, on 03/14/2008, -1/+2No thanks.
- inactive, on 03/14/2008, -0/+1Autorun.inf
One of the worst ***** ideas ever. I want to shoot the guy who thought of auto run. Seriously people cant be that lazy that they cant manually open a Mounted media. Worst part is that its impossible to completely disable auto run. You can use tweakui to disable autorun when media is inserted but if you end up double clicking the damn drive the ***** file executes. - bobdigi, on 03/14/2008, -0/+1lololololololol
- drkmirror, on 03/14/2008, -0/+1This has been happening for a long time nothing new move along.
- KillPenguin, on 03/14/2008, -0/+1I'm not burying you because I'm anti Linux, I'm just burying you because what you said was retarded.
- Speed, on 03/14/2008, -0/+1$50 says the corrective action was making the Geek Squad the official tech support of the Chinese Government.
- portos12, on 06/15/2008, -0/+1You cannot be sure in anything these days.
http://www.bestipodtips.info/ - orangetiki, on 03/14/2008, -1/+2damn straight
- plywood747, on 03/15/2008, -0/+1His slight resemblance to Paul McCartney is unforgivable.
- iiiears, on 03/15/2008, -0/+1almost any new device might contain a virus.
see also.
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/security/seagate-accide ...
http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/12/some-maxtor-per ...
Cheap or expensive, Windows or Mac, isn't the issue. - poor quality control is. - ninjan, on 03/15/2008, -0/+1Some Trojans were hiding on dads tom tom navigator.
- mal1964, on 03/14/2008, -0/+1 OK , Because They wouldn't take them.
- plywood747, on 03/15/2008, -0/+1In my day Big Business wasn't all about "money" and "profit".
- inactive, on 03/14/2008, -0/+1ROFL
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