Programmer finds way to liberate ransomware'd Google Smart TVs
Found on The Register on Tuesday, 03 January 2017
The company initially demanded more money than the idiot box was worth to repair the TV and relented offering instructions for resetting the telly after Cauthon took to Twitter to express his displeasure.
With the TV powered off, place one finger on the settings symbol then another finger on the channel down symbol. Remove finger from settings, then from channel down, and navigate using volume keys to the wipe data/ factory reset option.
How nice where the times when your TV was so stupid that it was literally impossible to get any sort of infection; but today, every device has to be connected to the Internet, now matter how bad and stupid its developers are.