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Samsung advised users to scan TVs for viruses and malware

article published on 20 June, 2019

Earlier this week, Samsung raised eyebrows by sharing a video instructing users of its smart TVs to run virus scans on them regularly. Samsung's smart TVs run on the Linux-based Tizen operating system. We are all familiar with running anti-malware software and even running virus scans on your PCs if we have suspicions. Samsung posted a tweet with an embedded video to its Samsung Support ... [ read the full article ]

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Bozobub
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_ 		23. June 2019 @ 01:41 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
This is why my 42" Sony Bravia "dumb" TV is great. No, I do NOT need a "smart TV"; it's already connected to an HTPC, FFS. MY TV cannot be infected, nor does it have a "boot up" period when turned on =).
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