What if virus infected usb is plugged into LCD TV?

[gobble]

TV will have cold, cough or diarrhea for a week. Then the TV will be mad at user for sticking that USB with virus into it.

Hey that is Gobble's punch line. Did you steal it?

Cheers

I love his jokes. He is yet to show up here, so thought of trying to fill the void...

Damn you!! Jokeyright Infringement should be made an offense under the law hyeah:

Good to read something that made me laugh out loud! :thumbsup:

More the Merrier :beer:

On a more serious note

On TV's with Internet capability do NOT ever surf your Bank A/C or personal email accounts on which you receive credit card and finance related emails or shop online using credit cards.

Most of the browsing clients in these TVs are written with poor security coding practices and there exist exploitable bugs and flaws that were discovered and fixed on Desktops years back.


FYI: Researchers Hack Internet Enabled TVs, Discover Multiple Security Vulnerabilities | SecurityWeek.Com && https://mocana.com/blog/2010/12/15/mocana-announces-internet-tv-security-study-2/

Edit: Do read the PDF linked on the Mocana page above : https://www.mocana.com/tv.pdf

HTH

--G0bble

 

[gobble]

IMO-TV is usually firmware based & not software base like PC.SO virus cannot easily affect TV unless it is made for that particular model.

Javascript/Java exploits can be universal and platform independent...

HTH

 

[BLASTO]

On a more serious note

Wow.. Everything has a first time..
Way to go..

 

[BLASTO]

-Delete.
Wrong post in a wrong thread.

 

[gobble]

Wow.. Everything has a first time..
Way to go..

/nick SeriousG0bble
Gobble is now known as SeriousG0bble

I have decided to turn into a new leaf

--SeriousG0bble

 

[donjuansid]

my friend is huge electronics dealer and i atleast no 2 cases where sony Tv have malfunctioned due to virus infected pendrives and the whole software for the tv just went kaput. Sony did not do anything for that, as it hard to reload the software on it. cost a bomb.

SO YES it can happen....

 

[deba]

Viruses will have no effect on any present day television........but in future if Television merges with your home computer then it will surely run on some OS (may be windows or linux etc..) and then virus may create some system crashes !!

 

[spirovious]

/nick SeriousG0bble
Gobble is now known as SeriousG0bble

I have decided to turn into a new leaf

--SeriousG0bble

The change is welcomed.

 

[Kittu]

/nick SeriousG0bble
Gobble is now known as SeriousG0bble

I have decided to turn into a new leaf

--SeriousG0bble

Hmmmmm! I am not feeling it , may be its your avatar. Can you put some serious expression there ?

 

[omishra]

my friend is huge electronics dealer and i atleast no 2 cases where sony Tv have malfunctioned due to virus infected pendrives and the whole software for the tv just went kaput. Sony did not do anything for that, as it hard to reload the software on it. cost a bomb.

SO YES it can happen....

I hope Sony is not using Windows as they OS.

 

[chem64]

We have been using computer monitors for years and there are no such incidents, at least to my knowledge, that a monitor had been damaged by a virus! And I hope same can be extended to tv's.

 

[praveeng]

my friend is huge electronics dealer and i atleast no 2 cases where sony Tv have malfunctioned due to virus infected pendrives and the whole software for the tv just went kaput. Sony did not do anything for that, as it hard to reload the software on it. cost a bomb.

SO YES it can happen....

Darn. I am afraid now.

Only when I almost concluded that TV will not be harmed, donjuansid adds this scary post.

Are we going to discuss donjuansid's experience further or can we assume that incidents of harm caused by infected USBs to TV would be negligible enough?

 

[gobble]

My line of thought ...

Protect your TV!!

G0bble

 

[deepakgang]

Good that you didn't suggest a Chinese brand

 

[praveeng]

My line of thought ...

Protect your TV!!

G0bble

Thanks for the idea man. Import from Germany might cause a handling damage, I am gonna take a DIY route.