Samsung: Please virus-scan your TV

Yesterday on Twitter, Samsung's US support team reminded everyone to regularly—and manually—virus-scan their televisions.

Samsung's team followed this up with a short video showing someone in a conference room going 16 button-presses deep into the system menu of a Samsung QLED TV to activate the television's built-in virus-scan, which is apparently "McAfee Security for TV."

Welcome to the future. You can't have a jetpack, but here's some third-party antivirus for your television. Enjoy!

Unsurprisingly, Samsung got immediate pushback on these tweets and almost as immediately deleted them.

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via Biz & IT – Ars Technica http://bit.ly/31G2kkR