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Pro@programming.dev to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago

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

www.gdatasoftware.com

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

www.gdatasoftware.com

Pro@programming.dev to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago
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Procolored: Printer company serves malware für six months, claims "false positive" warnings
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What do a coin stealer, an abandoned backdoor and a file infector have in common? They all resided in the download section on the website of a printer company - stowed away in installer files for drivers and utilities. We took a closer look.
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  • gressen@lemm.ee
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    The printer company is called Procolored.

    • Landless2029@lemmy.world
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      I’d have guessed HP

    • underline960@sh.itjust.works
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      Thank you. Cross-posted this to !savedyouaclick@lemmy.world.

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    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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    Wow it’s not HP.

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      In that case it wouldn’t be news.

    • MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml
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      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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      deleted by creator

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

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          deleted by creator

          • Passerby6497@lemmy.world
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            I don’t watch tiktok

          • Goodmorningsunshine@lemmy.world
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            Nope

      • jaybone@lemmy.zip
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        Yeah I’ve been bitching about their laptops too lately.

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          It’s almost like they want the hinges to break after six months.

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

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      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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        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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          I’m just saying that’s how I interpreted that bit. They thought it was a false positive because of that. For all I know, the earlier ones might have also been real malware or maybe it was all made up.

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

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      Plug and auto install drivers and play

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

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