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Creative MP3 Players Ship With Virus

Posted by Zonk on from the surprise-in-your-cereal dept.

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."

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  1. Re: How many more times, Zonk??? by Black+Parrot · · Score: 5, Informative


    > Seriously, Zonk...this shit just isn't funny anymore.

    1) Visit http://slashdot.org/users.pl?op=edithome

    2) Un-check "Zonk"

    3) Click "Save"

    4) See ya in another thread.

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  2. Re:How many more times, Zonk??? by Bogtha · · Score: 4, Informative

    Has /. has ever pulled a story for being a dupe, hoax or otherwise bogus?

    No, but they occasionally update the story to bitch about the complaints. Quote:

    Update For for the dupe. Not going well. Appreciate all the hate mail. Really encourages improvement.

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  3. NSFW!! by freeweed · · Score: 4, Informative

    Just so y'all know, it links to a porn link site.

    Might have the courtesy to warn people next time, asshat. Thankfully, I took today off.

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  4. Far superior by Overly+Critical+Guy · · Score: 2, Informative

    A far superior site is Digg.com. Users decide what gets posted, and just a scan of today's front page reminds me of the old Slashdot frontpage of yesteryear.

    There's even an interview with one of the Mythbusters! Cool.

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  5. ...AND IT'S STILL NOT 3,700 UNITS; IT'S 5% OF THAT by ickoonite · · Score: 2, Informative

    ...as I commented the last time this was posted (full translation here).

    Idiots.

    iqu :|