This Printer company served you malware for months, called them false positives

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• gressen@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The printer company is called Procolored.

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  • Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Also it’s for a UV printer, not an inkjet or laser printer, with the cheapest option on their website being $1900 and the average being around $6000. So, not a regular printer you would buy off the shelf. It’s still bad of course, but only so many people even could be impacted by it.

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    • HiTekRedNek@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Except you don’t need to have bought one to be affected by it. Maybe your employer bought one, and infected a computer you use at work.

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    • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s almost worse. Because then you’ll be more inclined to trust them.

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  • Landless2029@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’d have guessed HP

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  • underline960@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Thank you. Cross-posting this to !savedyouaclick@lemmy.world.

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• ouch@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Can you please add the company name in the title? If you want to keep original title, you can do it like this:

  This printer company [Procolored]

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• jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Wow it’s not HP.

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  • henfredemars@infosec.pub ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    In that case it wouldn’t be news.

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  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Btw, germany has a law about “Computersabotage”. Wondering why HP & co still can make your paid (computer) hardware not working anymore?

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  • Pirata@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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    • EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      HP created a whole generation of militant anti-HP consumers long before Louis Rossman

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    • jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah I’ve been bitching about their laptops too lately.

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• HyperfocusSurfer@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Good to see there are still viruses in the wild, I was beginning to think those kinda became some ancient forgotten form of art. [I mean proper viruses, not malware in general]

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• baggins@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The fact they’re still trying to blame “Chinese language” after presumably being provided with receipts?

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  • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I think they meant they were using malware detection tools that would often flag it because of the Chinese language issue and just assumed that’s what was up when it flagged it this time.

    Kinda like the boy who cried wolf, they ignored it when there really was a wolf.

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    • baggins@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You’re telling me there are malware detection tools that hit on the Chinese language? Like anything from China is malicious?

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• sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Looks like the printer company did not have antivirus on their systems.

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  • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It was a false positive.

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    • muusemuuse@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It was not

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• serenissi@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Why would anyone use the software? Aren’t modern printers plug and play?

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  • Chewget@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Plug and auto install drivers and play

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  • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This is not a typical home or office printer, very specialized.

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