Dont buy lexmark

[blobrana]

Hum,
 it seems that printer manufacturer Lexmark has been installing spyware on its customers' computers.
Reports claim that Lexmark has been planting spyware on its customers' PCs in the form of undocumented software that monitors the use of its printers and silently reports back to a Lexmark-owned company website.
So if anyone is thinking of buying a new printer then don’t choose Lexmark;
Ok, it may just be quite innocent,
but, a company decision, to include such software, should take into account the feeling by the net-savvy (that any `spyware is regarded as bad `) and that it would eventually be discovered.

And there is only one way to get the point through to them, financial.

More here...

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[blobrana]

Hum,
Yeah i heard that too...
They've been doing that for the last year or two....
Of course they say it's to preserve the print quality/heads etc, but we all know it’s to stop them from being refilled. The solution is to use a third party cartridge, one without the ink level-monitoring chip, and refill that.

Another, aspect to the printer software connecting to the internet is the virus/hacking aspect. Anything that puts a port though a firewall, (for those who may have mistakenly done so), is a target for hacking.

But, that is tomorrows news...