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Creative MP3 Players Ship With Virus
TheChillPill wrote to mention a Register article which reports that Creative has instituted a recall for some 5GB Zen Neeons. The reason? About 3,700 were shipped with the Wullik-B email worm. From the article: "Creative is reporting that the virus affects players with serial numbers between 1230528000001 and 1230533001680 that have shipped in Japan in late July. According to a translation of Creative's statement (in Japanese) on the security flap the firm has temporarily stopped shipping Zen Neeons players while its partners assist in the recall of the infected batch. The firm said it has identified the source of the outbreak and fixed the problem. Creative said the virus contamination issue was confined to Zen Neeons players and didn't affect any of its other products."
Oh my, I just can't believe how irresponsible Creative is being. This is the second time that they have shipped 3700 of these players with this exact same virus in less than a week!
I always save my last mod point to mod up a good troll. You people are too serious.
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/08/ 30/0118252&tid=184&tid=220
holy crap. never knew that.
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Does their patent cover this too?
Well, that story was dealing with worms, and this one is dealing with viruses, so they're very clearly different stories...
I'll turn into a supernova and burn up everything. Well I'll turn into a black little hole and you'll turn into string.
The question is, who owns the patent on shipping MP3 players with viruses? Will they take legal action?
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Eat them anyway!
Karma be dammed, you'll read them
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It's good to see that Taco worked incredibly hard to make Zonk the editorbot in his own image...
I'll turn into a supernova and burn up everything. Well I'll turn into a black little hole and you'll turn into string.
Actually, the virus causes reposts on the slashdot homepage. Apparently, he bought himself a Zen recently.
Now, *that's* Creative.
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They're sure getting creative with their viral marketing.
Well, /. looks more and more like TV each day. Ads, reruns. One of these days they'll start doing news items and weather forcasts.
Come on, Slashdotters. What's with the frowns on everyone's faces. Why is everyone taking these dupes so negatively? Just think of these dupes as reruns. We would love to crack jokes about Windows viruses, talk about how Linux should be used for everything, talk about how "creative" stuffing viruses in MP3 players are, and....
Oh, scratch the sarcasm. These dupes really are annoying.
To late, folks.
*raises glass*
To late!
I'll turn into a supernova and burn up everything. Well I'll turn into a black little hole and you'll turn into string.
What a wonderfully Creative way to distribute virii!
This article refered to a virus, while the previous "dupe" refered to a worm. Maybe the guy thought that the 2 cases are different? Heh.
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They could license it and make millions!!!
Reminder: Apple owns 1/255th of the internet.
I unchecked all the ones that have posted dupes in the past so I do not have to see all their duping greatness. Great tip but how come I do not see anything on the frontpage anymore?
Heh thats what they all say. But looking at your post history (1000+ comments), I would say you have a fairly nasty addiction. I give you a week tops before you hit the /. crack pipe again. I'll be watching !
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First rule about Slashdot Club is you do not talk about dupes in Slashdot Club.
Second rule about Slashdot Club is you DO NOT talk about dupes in Slashdot Club.
Thrid rule about Slashdot Club is someone yells Dupe!, points out a dupe, or comments on a dupe, story is over.
Forth rule, two admins to a dupe.
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Seventh rule, stories get duped as long as they have to.
And the eighth and final rule, if this is your first night at Slashdot Club, you have to dupe.
I want to know when we're going to have a topic image for Dupes. :)
I prefer a void in conversation to a vacuous one.
...oh, wait.