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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. IPOD by Salvarus · · Score: 0, Troll

    This might be a bit of a troll but: One more reason to get an IPOD!

    1. Re:IPOD by Mark+Gillespie · · Score: 0, Troll

      OK, I'll return the troll. Why not avoid the IPod for it's crap SNR, crap battery life, and crap audio format support compared to the Creative devices.

  2. Re:Probably... by iMac+Were · · Score: 0, Troll
    "I've just seen hundreds of Mac users claiming they're free from viruses and spyware because they use mac's."

    Their computers might be free from viruses, but I bet their butt-holes aren't.

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  3. Corporate (l)user-ship by freaker_TuC · · Score: 0, Troll

    Creative's fault?
    Why isn't such production plant using a non-networked or unix PC that makes an image of the directory/filesystem after an automatic virus-check with latest signatures -> sending the image over a TX only connection or by DVD?

    (l)user errors
    On the other side, the home user should have a virus scanner installed; which are available for free; which would also intercept such corporate f*ck*ps immediately (g*ess my * key does not work very well); and which would stop this infected Internet madness a lot faster by updating the virus signatures automatically.

    We are so fast in media techniques like media-visual (Flash, ...) which is installed everywhere but still the computerworld is treatened by simple things that could have been avoided by one person, the one sitting behind the computer -> the (l)user, who thinks his PC is having nothing important so why care if anyone "uses" the bandwidth or PC as storage device ... (also called hypocricy)

    Certain OS manufacturers
    It's ackward, me as PC user is still wondering, I've seen os X and I've been using Windows for years - it's like the beauty and the beast... (-- the manufacturer, Microswoft(tm))

    and it only gets uglier...

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