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Creative Zens Ship with Worms
An anonymous reader writes "Engadget reports about 3700 Creative Zen "Neeons" shipped with a virus. The virus in question was the W32.Wullik.B@mm worm. Creative released a statement today to help consumers pinpoint the possibly effected devices."
but shouldn't it be affected?
the possibly effected devices means the devices that possibly came into existence because of the worm.
In case anyone is fooled into thinking the
Creative press release was horrible Engrish,
that was a bablefish link.
It is unfortunate we don't have an english
version yet, if that is the market effected by
this.
When I see the "quality" of /. comments, especially compared to just a year or ago, I realize it's populated with the younger generation, but things like this confirm it.
It's not flamebait, you just don't remember it happening. I wasn't referring to Windows itself.
Here are a few examples:
http://www.idg.co.nz/cw.nsf/0/CC256D400014E76CCC25 6A3A00806895?OpenDocument&Type=Column&More=Virus/ Microsoft makes the virus news section too, with confirmation that it shipped some hotfixes infected with the rather nasty (but old and well-detected by antivirus software) FunLove virus
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-935994.html/ Microsoft accidentally sent the virulent Nimda worm to South Korean developers when it distributed Korean-language versions of Visual Studio .Net
It doesn't MS is evil, it means they are human. Any company that ships tons of software will ~eventually~ make a mistake.
Today it's Creative's turn.
Agile Artisans
For those who, like me, prefer reading intelligible Japanese over machine translation, here.
Once upon a time I remembered that %2f was slash and %3f was question mark, etc.
"Do mac users run virus scanners often?"
There are quite a lot of Mac users that have anti virus installed. Mostly because they fall for the virus hysteria in the Windows centric press, and thinks that it applies to them too, but also because they don't want to risk sending a virus infected document or mail to a Windows user by mistake. Even if the virus didn't infect the Mac itself.
"How do they know if they have viruses that aren't commonly known yet?"
There are exactly zero known viruses for Mac OS X right this minute. If one would emerge it will be commonly known in the Mac community quite fast. It is a closely knit community after all.
"I keep virus scanner running on my linux machines just in case, and it disinfects few files every now and then."
Prudent, but it's mostly for the benefit of your Windows friends.
- Henrik
- when the Shadows descend -
What happens in a few years time when a Linux based virus spreads and all those "security by obscurity" factories and workshops are compromised?
Understand that Linux is not a shining light that will be 100% watertight, if market share increases, more eyes will be on it and the potential for a major virus outbreak grows (tbh, I think the entry points will come from an application rather than the kernel but thats just the way it is)
Any operating system can be made secure by following proper procedure and keeping ontop of security announcements.
liqbase
Why does this sound like some Mac/iPod anonymous fanatic kicking dust?
You may not have had Dell 1650s installed a while back, but there was a recall in 2003 because a voltage regulator on the MB overheated and could catch fire: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9584_22-5145372.html?ta g=zdfd.newsfeed
If your complaints against the grammar come from the second link in the blurb, it is machine translation from Japanese to English via Babelfish. On the contrary, the original Japanese was written well enough.
For any Japanophiles in the house, for the translation It regards the problem of the Creative Zen Neeon digital audio player, the original was Creative Zen Neeon Digital Audio Player [dejitaru o-d'io pure-ya-] no mondai ni kan suru, which is better translated as regarding the problem with the Creative Zen Neoon DAP.
If you read the statement provided by Creative, you'll see that the serial numbers of the affected units are listed, and that Creative apologizes deeply for the problem. (yeah, it's babelfish translated, but you get the point)
This is an ASIA-ONLY problem.
Please get your facts straight before wanking all over the place about this. It happens, and since the virus is on the player in a place where it is extremely unlikely to be executed by a customer, this is not a big deal at all, and I'm sure it's a big wake-up call for Creative's Asian QA department, if they had anything to do with it.