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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.
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.
Slashdot gave me articles
that weren't day-old bread.
Eat them anyway!
Karma be dammed, you'll read them
and come back for more!
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.
Well, /. looks more and more like TV each day. Ads, reruns. One of these days they'll start doing news items and weather forcasts.
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.
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?