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."

Comments

Re:That's why Win32 in a factory is a bad idea

[Daniel Phillips]

The point is without real data behind what was deployed, how it was deployed, the benefits of the deployment, etc... you can't really determine if Linux makes sense for Creative.

You can now. Avoiding this one black eye alone would have been well worth the price of admission.

If indeed there is a price. Manufacturing process control software is arguably less expensive to develop and deploy with Linux than Windows, and Linux can do the same work using fewer machines, giving you your choice of lower cost or better machines.

English is your first language, right?

[ProfitElijah]

Affect/effect