That's certainly possible. I was doing a lot of work with Far East suppliers in 2001 and almost all of them were sending infected files. We used Norton Antivirus Corporate so I was able to monitor the 150 or so computers we had and almost all of the viruses it caught were coming from overseas.
Since I suspect these frames are being mass produced at the cheapest factories in china, it doesn't surprise me that they could be distributing viruses, either unknowingly or on purpose. --- On Mon, 12/29/08, Paul Hill <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Paul Hill <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [NF] Photo frames shipped with malware > To: "ProFox Email List" <[email protected]> > Date: Monday, December 29, 2008, 5:35 PM > I heard it may be a false positive due to the executable > packer used > > I had the same problem a couple of weeks ago. We pack some > of our > exe's (I forget the program...) and our South African > dealer reported > a virus. I checked it with AVG (my home PC), > Norton/Symantec (one of > our servers) and McAffe (a different server) without > finding anything. > > YMMV... > > On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 10:23 PM, Michael Madigan > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Excellent quality control! > > > > > http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081229-walmart-amazon-bundle-malware-with-holiday-cheer.html > > > > > > > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
