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December 29th, 2008 at 10:50 pm

Amazon warns customers of infected digital photo frames

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mercury-worm Amazon warns customers of infected digital photo frames

Amazon.com Inc. last week warned customers running Windows XP that a Samsung digital photo frame it sold until earlier this month might have come with malware on the driver installation CD. An Amazon.com customer posted the warning a week ago to the online retailer’s user forum. In its note to customers, Amazon.com said that a Samsung advisory had been issued for the SPF-85H, an 8-in. digital photo frame that Amazon sold for approximately $150 starting in October. The Samsung SPF-85H is no longer available on Amazon.com.

Samsung released its advisory (download PDF) on Nov. 27 and listed five photo frame models as being affected: SPF-75H, SPF-76H, SPF-85H, SPF-85P and SPF-105P. According to Samsung’s alert, “a batch of Photo Frame Driver CDs contain a worm virus in the Frame Manager software. This is a risk of the customers host PCs being infected with this worm virus.”

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