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Creative Zens Ship with Worms

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the egg-on-your-face dept.

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."

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  1. I swear I'm not a grammar geek by coshx · · Score: 5, Informative

    but shouldn't it be affected?
    the possibly effected devices means the devices that possibly came into existence because of the worm.

  2. Re:Not the first, won't be the last by jarich · · Score: 5, Informative
    Flamebait?

    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
  3. Okay, a link to the original without babelfish by Joseph_Daniel_Zukige · · Score: 3, Informative

    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.

  4. Re:Why do I somehow think that.. by Henriok · · Score: 5, Informative

    "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 -
  5. Poorly edited news post by theraccoon · · Score: 5, Informative
    The author of the post and the editor who posted it both failed to mention that this only affects models shipped in Japan. The link to the creative page is a babelfish translated website! Plus, the engadget page says that in order to become infected, you'll need to "go running conspicuous applications found on your device".

    Why does this sound like some Mac/iPod anonymous fanatic kicking dust?