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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Alzheimer's / February 2008Warning about digital picture frames.
Not AD related, but these are becoming popular gifts and everyone here seems to have a computer. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/02/15/BU47V0VOH.DTL&type=b usiness  SignatureI had a friend once, but the wheels fell off. Sad, very sad. > Not AD related, but these are becoming popular gifts and everyone here > seems to have a computer. > > http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/02/15/BU47V0VOH.DTL&type=b usiness I read this on Sunday. Very scary. I almost bought one of those frames for my mother. Very glad that I didn't now. AW >> Not AD related, but these are becoming popular gifts and everyone here >> seems to have a computer. [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > I read this on Sunday. Very scary. I almost bought one of those frames > for my mother. Very glad that I didn't now. AW The chances you woud have bought one of the particular consignement and exact make tht had the virus is miniscule. SignatureTumbleweed email replies not necessary but to contact use; tumbleweednews at hotmail dot com >>> Not AD related, but these are becoming popular gifts and everyone here >>> seems to have a computer. [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > The chances you woud have bought one of the particular consignement and > exact make tht had the virus is miniscule. Hey T..... how can you know? With my luck I'd get the "wonky" one. SignatureBest Regards, Evelyn >>> Not AD related, but these are becoming popular gifts and everyone here >>> seems to have a computer. [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > The chances you woud have bought one of the particular consignement and > exact make tht had the virus is miniscule. Best Buy, Costco, Target, Sam's Club ? None of those businesses buy small lots of any product they sell. I'd think it was much more likely that there are large numbers of people who bought these frames who do not even realize their computers are infected. How many digital frames do you think these four large retailers sold during the last Christmas shopping season? If the trojan downloaded from these various brands of frames could disable over 100 types of antivirus software plus leave no tracks on the infected computers then this was a big project that took lots of planning and expertise. It was not the work of some disaffected kid who just messed with a few frames in the factory where he worked. AW > Best Buy, Costco, Target, Sam's Club ? None of those businesses buy small > lots of any product they sell. I'd think it was much more likely that > there are large numbers of people who bought these frames who do not even > realize their computers are infected. How many digital frames do you think > these four large retailers sold during the last Christmas shopping season? Huge numbers. Thats my point, because it was just one consignement of one brand that had the problem. Hence the odds being very low. SignatureTumbleweed email replies not necessary but to contact use; tumbleweednews at hotmail dot com >> Best Buy, Costco, Target, Sam's Club ? None of those businesses buy >> small lots of any product they sell. I'd think it was much more likely [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > Huge numbers. Thats my point, because it was just one consignement of one > brand that had the problem. Hence the odds being very low. Only one brand that Best Buy sold was infected. Other stores had other frame brands and models that were infected plus some frames had multiple trojans embedded in addition to the Mocmex trojan. The original newspaper article I read concerning this issue was more detailed than the recent online articles. AW AW wrote: I almost bought one of those frames for my mother. Mary responds: We were just at an 80th birthday party for a family friend. She lives in a care facility close to us in Toronto (she had a serious stroke a couple of years back that left her with a seizure disorder). All three of her sons live in the States. She is going downhill mentally - probably multi-infarct. At any rate, she enjoys pictures, so one of her sons bought her one of those frames as a birthday gift. He loaded it up, set it up etc. It has a timer, so it shuts itself off at night and back on during the day. She must have called us 10 times now. She is upset by it, can't remember that it shuts itself off, is all worried about leaving it on, can't understand how to just unplug it or switch it off etc. etc. A nice low tech picture frame, or album might have been a better idea. M. > AW wrote: I almost bought one of those frames for my mother. > [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > > M. Yes, that is true. I remember when my mother in law had problems finding her way out of her bedroom to the bathroom....(only a few feet across the hall from her door) so we put a nightlight in her room plugged into a receptacle under a table, where we thought it wouldn't bother her. She went through all sorts of contortions trying to turn that thing off. Low tech is definitely better. SignatureBest Regards, Evelyn |
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