The use of certain TV boxes can be extremely dangerous for your personal and banking data. 60 million consumers indicate how to protect themselves against possible risks. The market TV boxes have been booming for several years. Connected boxes have been added to the boxes of internet operators. These small boxes that can easily be found in stores and on sales sites like Amazon, Fnac or even for resale via LeBonCoin are popular. For good reason: they make it possible to equip televisions that are technically too dated in order to grant them several applications such as Netflix, myCanal, Spotify, Twitch or even Prime Video . Some boxes even allow you to have a few games on your television with recognized titles like Final Fantasy or Asphalt. Today there are a multitude of brands specializing (or not) in Android TV boxes. Manufacturers like Xiaomi or even Nvidia, which we know more for their smartphones or graphics cards, are particularly present in this market. with boxes designed to equip your televisions. However, these Android TV boxes would also be subject to this problem. many worries. The 60 million consumer site warns users against some of these boxes purchased online or in non-specialized stores. A recent study by the company Human Security, specializing in cyber security, detected ; nearly 200 Android TV boxes infested with an integrated virus &agrav; their architecture and quite simply impossible à DELETE. The malicious file in question will then silently infect your installation and connected objects in order to generate advertising revenue or steal your personal data. Among the TV boxes concerned, we find in particular the following references: T95, T95Z, T95MAX, X88, Q9, X12PLUS and MXQ Pro 5G. Many other brands are also affected, but they all have one thing in common: these are boxes that are not approved among Google partners and are often very Cheap. To find out about Android's (and therefore Google's) partner brands, don't hesitate to contact us. check on the firm's official website at the bottom of the page. If you have a contaminated Android box, unfortunately there is no other alternative than to get rid of it. The incriminated virus being directly integrated into to the boxes in question, you will not be able to remove it even by resetting the device. This is why we strongly recommend that you turn to the boxes offered by Google partners such as SONY, TCL or Philips.
By Teilor Stone
Teilor Stone has been a reporter on the news desk since 2013. Before that she wrote about young adolescence and family dynamics for Styles and was the legal affairs correspondent for the Metro desk. Before joining Thesaxon , Teilor Stone worked as a staff writer at the Village Voice and a freelancer for Newsday, The Wall Street Journal, GQ and Mirabella. To get in touch, contact me through my teilor@nizhtimes.com 1-800-268-7116