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Smart TV - risk of viruses?

olivense

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Posted February 5, 2013 at 8:02AM

My Smart TV arrives today, as it will connect to the internet is there a risk of viruses and how can it be protected from them?

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onthelimit1

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Posted February 5, 2013 at 9:16AM

In my experience, viruses are only written (by and large) to target MS products. My children have been using Apple laptops, iPads etc for years with no AV and no problems. Same applies to Android devices. May all change in the future, of course!

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digiupdates

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Posted March 27, 2013 at 3:53PM

It would be technically possible, but i doubt it would ever happen. The reason is pretty simple, what would people gain? How much credit card work are you going to do on your TV? Probably not much.

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