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This Printer company served you malware for months, called them false positives
(www.gdatasoftware.com)
The printer company is called Procolored.
this post was submitted on 19 May 2025
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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.
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.
That’s possible, but they aren’t really typical office printers either, it’s for specialized art printing. Again it’s definitely bad, this just isn’t typical office equipment.
That's almost worse. Because then you'll be more inclined to trust them.
Yeah, I would expect a printer I paid 6k for to not have malware!
I'd have guessed HP
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]
Wow it’s not HP.
In that case it wouldn’t be news.
Btw, germany has a law about "Computersabotage". Wondering why HP & co still can make your paid (computer) hardware not working anymore?
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]
The fact they're still trying to blame "Chinese language" after presumably being provided with receipts?
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.
You're telling me there are malware detection tools that hit on the Chinese language? Like anything from China is malicious?
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.
Looks like the printer company did not have antivirus on their systems.
It was a false positive.
Edit: I can't believe this needed a /s
It was not
... c/whoosh?
No this is an example where sarcasm and stupidity can't be distinguished via text alone.
Would have thought it was an obvious play on the headline, but I accept that sheer stupidity does exist.
Yeah unfortunately
No, it’s obvious to anyone with a brain. If the commenter seriously thought it might have been a false positive when they read the original comment, they never would have relayed their thought the way they did in their reply, and it is so clearly a reference to the content of the post that to analyze it even that deeply is overkill. To anyone reading this who is a native English speaker: if you think that comment needs a “/s”, you need to work on your reading comprehension. Read things more carefully.
Why would anyone use the software? Aren't modern printers plug and play?
Plug and auto install drivers and play
This is not a typical home or office printer, very specialized.