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

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• gressen@lemm.ee ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The printer company is called Procolored.

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  • Landless2029@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’d have guessed HP

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  • Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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  • underline960@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

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

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• ouch@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Wow it’s not HP.

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  • henfredemars@infosec.pub ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    In that case it wouldn’t be news.

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  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    [deleted]

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    • EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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    • jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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• HyperfocusSurfer@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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• sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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  • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It was a false positive.

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    • muusemuuse@lemm.ee ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It was not

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• baggins@lemmy.ca ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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• serenissi@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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  • Chewget@lemm.ee ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Plug and auto install drivers and play

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  • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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