http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/insignia-photo-frame-virus-much-nastier-than-originally-thought/ Engadget Comments for Insignia photo frame virus much nastier than originally thought http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2008 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/insignia-photo-frame-virus-much-nastier-than-originally-thought/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/insignia-photo-frame-virus-much-nastier-than-originally-thought/Feb 15th 2008 7:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/insignia-photo-frame-virus-much-nastier-than-originally-thought/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/insignia-photo-frame-virus-much-nastier-than-originally-thought/Feb 15th 2008 9:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/insignia-photo-frame-virus-much-nastier-than-originally-thought/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/insignia-photo-frame-virus-much-nastier-than-originally-thought/Feb 15th 2008 7:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/insignia-photo-frame-virus-much-nastier-than-originally-thought/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/insignia-photo-frame-virus-much-nastier-than-originally-thought/Feb 15th 2008 7:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/insignia-photo-frame-virus-much-nastier-than-originally-thought/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/insignia-photo-frame-virus-much-nastier-than-originally-thought/Feb 15th 2008 8:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/insignia-photo-frame-virus-much-nastier-than-originally-thought/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/insignia-photo-frame-virus-much-nastier-than-originally-thought/Feb 15th 2008 8:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/insignia-photo-frame-virus-much-nastier-than-originally-thought/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/insignia-photo-frame-virus-much-nastier-than-originally-thought/Feb 15th 2008 8:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/insignia-photo-frame-virus-much-nastier-than-originally-thought/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/insignia-photo-frame-virus-much-nastier-than-originally-thought/Feb 15th 2008 8:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/insignia-photo-frame-virus-much-nastier-than-originally-thought/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/insignia-photo-frame-virus-much-nastier-than-originally-thought/Feb 15th 2008 9:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/insignia-photo-frame-virus-much-nastier-than-originally-thought/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/insignia-photo-frame-virus-much-nastier-than-originally-thought/
I agreed that whenever I have a choice I'd stay away from Made In China products.

But before you write another ignorant comment, you should keep in mind that all Apple products are made in China, and they are often perceived as the least virus-prone computers/electronics.

Best Buy should be responsible for the quality of their products regardless of where it is made. ]]>Feb 15th 2008 9:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/insignia-photo-frame-virus-much-nastier-than-originally-thought/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/insignia-photo-frame-virus-much-nastier-than-originally-thought/
>......Made in China.....

Along with my laptop, my Playstation 2, my LCD tv (5"), my PSP, my cellphone, my Wireless Router, my modem, etc. etc...

P.S: Have you noticed the commenting system? Weird... They changed it.]]>Feb 15th 2008 9:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/insignia-photo-frame-virus-much-nastier-than-originally-thought/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/insignia-photo-frame-virus-much-nastier-than-originally-thought/Feb 15th 2008 9:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/insignia-photo-frame-virus-much-nastier-than-originally-thought/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/insignia-photo-frame-virus-much-nastier-than-originally-thought/

only other product I can't think Didn't the iPod come with a virus!!!
dont think the zune comes with one ;)

Not tryin to bash apple here, I too think they make some very nice products. Just that the fact that apple stuff is made in china doesn't mean people can't mess with it

oh and before you tell me that the virus on the iPod was for a windows...i know...probably why apple didn't want to warm people.]]>Feb 15th 2008 10:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/insignia-photo-frame-virus-much-nastier-than-originally-thought/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/insignia-photo-frame-virus-much-nastier-than-originally-thought/
Sometimes they send me a confirmation email. There is this "please confirm comment..." mail popping in my mailbox. I thought it was a ploy to prevent double-posts or "first!" spams. Plus

Here's a screenshot, see what I meant:
http://img509.imageshack.us/img509/3567/blahhhhhhei5.png

"Aguiluz replied to your comment!" Wow, they have to inform me that I replied to my own comment.]]>Feb 15th 2008 11:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/insignia-photo-frame-virus-much-nastier-than-originally-thought/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/insignia-photo-frame-virus-much-nastier-than-originally-thought/Feb 16th 2008 3:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/insignia-photo-frame-virus-much-nastier-than-originally-thought/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/insignia-photo-frame-virus-much-nastier-than-originally-thought/

Either way digital photo frames suck.]]>Feb 16th 2008 12:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/insignia-photo-frame-virus-much-nastier-than-originally-thought/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/insignia-photo-frame-virus-much-nastier-than-originally-thought/
and exactly how do you do it dave ? when most of the manufacturing of Taiwan, South Korea and Japan are now outsourced to China. You mind sharing us some tips ? Name some products that has the label "Made in Japan, Made in Taiwan, Made in South Korea" these days. ]]>Feb 16th 2008 1:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/insignia-photo-frame-virus-much-nastier-than-originally-thought/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/insignia-photo-frame-virus-much-nastier-than-originally-thought/american made gear are still made in china.]]>Feb 16th 2008 7:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/insignia-photo-frame-virus-much-nastier-than-originally-thought/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/insignia-photo-frame-virus-much-nastier-than-originally-thought/Feb 15th 2008 7:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/insignia-photo-frame-virus-much-nastier-than-originally-thought/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/insignia-photo-frame-virus-much-nastier-than-originally-thought/Feb 15th 2008 7:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/insignia-photo-frame-virus-much-nastier-than-originally-thought/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/insignia-photo-frame-virus-much-nastier-than-originally-thought/Feb 15th 2008 7:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/insignia-photo-frame-virus-much-nastier-than-originally-thought/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/insignia-photo-frame-virus-much-nastier-than-originally-thought/Feb 15th 2008 7:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/insignia-photo-frame-virus-much-nastier-than-originally-thought/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/insignia-photo-frame-virus-much-nastier-than-originally-thought/Feb 15th 2008 8:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/insignia-photo-frame-virus-much-nastier-than-originally-thought/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/insignia-photo-frame-virus-much-nastier-than-originally-thought/Feb 15th 2008 8:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/insignia-photo-frame-virus-much-nastier-than-originally-thought/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/insignia-photo-frame-virus-much-nastier-than-originally-thought/Ha. Ha. Ha.]]>Feb 15th 2008 10:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/insignia-photo-frame-virus-much-nastier-than-originally-thought/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/insignia-photo-frame-virus-much-nastier-than-originally-thought/
I use Ubuntu too, but "Ubuntu Linux picture frame" doesn't really roll off the tongue...
Then again, there's not much point to digital picture frames so we shouldn't really have to worry about it]]>Feb 15th 2008 11:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/insignia-photo-frame-virus-much-nastier-than-originally-thought/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/insignia-photo-frame-virus-much-nastier-than-originally-thought/Feb 16th 2008 12:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/insignia-photo-frame-virus-much-nastier-than-originally-thought/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/insignia-photo-frame-virus-much-nastier-than-originally-thought/
(Yes, I realize this could be done a number of different ways but I happened to have the machine, it looks somewhat stylish and it otherwise would have gone unused--for what it's worth I also have a wall full of good old fashioned analog photos)]]>Feb 16th 2008 3:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/insignia-photo-frame-virus-much-nastier-than-originally-thought/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/insignia-photo-frame-virus-much-nastier-than-originally-thought/Feb 15th 2008 7:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/insignia-photo-frame-virus-much-nastier-than-originally-thought/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/insignia-photo-frame-virus-much-nastier-than-originally-thought/Feb 15th 2008 8:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/insignia-photo-frame-virus-much-nastier-than-originally-thought/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/insignia-photo-frame-virus-much-nastier-than-originally-thought/Feb 15th 2008 8:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/insignia-photo-frame-virus-much-nastier-than-originally-thought/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/insignia-photo-frame-virus-much-nastier-than-originally-thought/Feb 15th 2008 9:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/insignia-photo-frame-virus-much-nastier-than-originally-thought/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/insignia-photo-frame-virus-much-nastier-than-originally-thought/Feb 16th 2008 12:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/insignia-photo-frame-virus-much-nastier-than-originally-thought/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/insignia-photo-frame-virus-much-nastier-than-originally-thought/
Then my parents, frustrated that we weren't developing digital pictures of their granddaughter fast enough, got us one for the holidays.

The first thing I did was buy a 1GB SD card for it, the first time I saw them on sale for $10 at Office Depot (the frame only came with an anemic 128MB of RAM).

It never even got hooked up to any of our PC's. Just the SD card that came out of the digital camera and went into its slot. Now I'm glad we've kept it in digital isolation.]]>Feb 15th 2008 8:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/insignia-photo-frame-virus-much-nastier-than-originally-thought/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/insignia-photo-frame-virus-much-nastier-than-originally-thought/Feb 15th 2008 8:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/insignia-photo-frame-virus-much-nastier-than-originally-thought/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/insignia-photo-frame-virus-much-nastier-than-originally-thought/
viruses are only possible because of three prime aspects of horrible security policy.. vista is the first microsoft product not to exhibit all of them.
Of course, if you want hardware compatibility, ironically enough, you're looking at linux. And if Google keeps up the awesome work on WINE, it may surpass Vista for software compatibility too ;)]]>Feb 15th 2008 10:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/insignia-photo-frame-virus-much-nastier-than-originally-thought/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/insignia-photo-frame-virus-much-nastier-than-originally-thought/Feb 15th 2008 8:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/insignia-photo-frame-virus-much-nastier-than-originally-thought/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/insignia-photo-frame-virus-much-nastier-than-originally-thought/Feb 15th 2008 8:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/insignia-photo-frame-virus-much-nastier-than-originally-thought/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/insignia-photo-frame-virus-much-nastier-than-originally-thought/
When will ZoneAlarm come out for 64-bit XP?]]>Feb 15th 2008 8:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/insignia-photo-frame-virus-much-nastier-than-originally-thought/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/insignia-photo-frame-virus-much-nastier-than-originally-thought/Feb 15th 2008 9:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/insignia-photo-frame-virus-much-nastier-than-originally-thought/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/insignia-photo-frame-virus-much-nastier-than-originally-thought/..well, maybe i have one and just don't know it.

Guys, does Ubuntu come with a firewall?]]>Feb 15th 2008 10:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/insignia-photo-frame-virus-much-nastier-than-originally-thought/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/insignia-photo-frame-virus-much-nastier-than-originally-thought/Yes, Ubuntu comes with iptables (you just don't know it). You can use Firestarter if you want a GUI for it]]>Feb 15th 2008 11:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/insignia-photo-frame-virus-much-nastier-than-originally-thought/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/insignia-photo-frame-virus-much-nastier-than-originally-thought/
Oh wait...I decided not to buy Chinese cr*p long before we knew they were poisoning us, our pets, and our computers.]]>Feb 15th 2008 8:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/insignia-photo-frame-virus-much-nastier-than-originally-thought/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/insignia-photo-frame-virus-much-nastier-than-originally-thought/Feb 16th 2008 1:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/insignia-photo-frame-virus-much-nastier-than-originally-thought/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/insignia-photo-frame-virus-much-nastier-than-originally-thought/Feb 16th 2008 1:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/insignia-photo-frame-virus-much-nastier-than-originally-thought/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/insignia-photo-frame-virus-much-nastier-than-originally-thought/Feb 16th 2008 1:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/insignia-photo-frame-virus-much-nastier-than-originally-thought/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/insignia-photo-frame-virus-much-nastier-than-originally-thought/
The bottom line is that while I have spent the last 10+ years avoiding Chinese cr*p and trying to convince everyone else to do the same, most haven't and now we are all paying the price. My apparently too subtle point in my original post (where I DO NOT claim to own nothing made in China) was to point out that the populace as a whole saw nothing wrong with our stuff being made more and more in China (I debating many a person who thought I was nuts for worrying about it) and that now we are all paying for it (at least those who are willing to eat food made in China or see the need to buy an overpriced picture frame, etc.).

In the end blame, Wal-Mart because they started the trend and pushed their suppliers to go there or loose the business (a trap, I believe, originally set by China). To this day, I avoid buying from China when Possible and everyone should do the same. More so, I am vocal about it to store owners, and if we all were to stand up and say no more, we could start fix this problem. Otherwise, we will just sit here and take until China collapses under the weight of themselves or we collapse because we have no real jobs that can afford all of the Chinese cr*p.]]>Feb 16th 2008 2:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/insignia-photo-frame-virus-much-nastier-than-originally-thought/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/insignia-photo-frame-virus-much-nastier-than-originally-thought/Feb 17th 2008 8:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/insignia-photo-frame-virus-much-nastier-than-originally-thought/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/insignia-photo-frame-virus-much-nastier-than-originally-thought/
As for quality...yes, the company can control the quality to some extent, thus why my Mac is superior to the Dell OR the Sony Vaio (I had two $3000 Sony Vaio laptops, both of which were dead, dead, dead within two years). BUT, all of these companies that have screwed lately with tainted food or lead paint or bad dog food all BELIEVED they had good quality control over there and it wasn't enough.

Also, Taiwan has been a tech hotbed for years and Korea has just recently gone from being the place the cr*p was made to a place with better quality control (though still far behind the Japanese). Thailand is another place with better quality control than China. But, in the end, none of these countries possess one other "quality" that dictates that we should avoid Chinese stuff...none of them are our enemy, which in some ways China is. By buying Chinese, we are helping the most over-populated country with a poor human rights record continue their ways; and this is likely to lead to confrontation at some point.]]>Feb 17th 2008 10:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/insignia-photo-frame-virus-much-nastier-than-originally-thought/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/15/insignia-photo-frame-virus-much-nastier-than-originally-thought/Feb 15th 2008 8:58PM