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."

Comments

How many more times, Zonk???

[TripMaster Monkey]

Article is yet another dupe....original article can be found here.

Seriously, Zonk...this shit just isn't funny anymore. Perhaps you view your endless dupe posts as some sort of clever social commentary...or perhaps you've just taken a few too many sniffs of the huffing rag. Either way, we're getting pretty damned sick of it.

Do us all a favor and resign. While you're at it, wipe your hard drive and smash your modem.

Re:How many more times, Zonk???

[garcia]

It's not as if Zonk isn't being notified.

Think I'll get modded redundant this time?

Zonk

[pete-classic]

Like deja vu all over again.

The original story.

-Peter

No subscription for me

[the_rev_matt]

It's been said a million times, but this is precisely why I won't pay for a slashdot subscription. Nor will I click on any ads. Even if I see an ad that looks interesting (which is fairly often, I'll open a new tab and browse there manually rather than give slashdot the traffic revenue. An occasional dupe is one thing, but when 25% of the stories on the front page are dupes from YESTERDAY, it's clear that OSDN doesn't give a shit about quality.

Re:No subscription for me

[ediron2]

I'm not responsible for the GP, but I'll play Devil's Advocate:

Last time I checked, I don't get reimbursed for slashdot comments I make. Slashdot gets a few thousand comments per day, so that's several hundred man-hours of donated content they get per day.

Meanwhile, half a dozen so-called editors have done very little to improve the site lately and only marginally more to improve editorial quality. There's the disconnect: They cover servers and bandwidth, we provide 99% of the content.

Barrier to entry: being the behemoth it is, slashdot (like Microsoft) is partly to blame for the lack of competition. A lot of competitors have tried, few can get critical mass because everyone still uses slashdot.

I paid (once!) for a subscription, but have watched slashdot editorial quality actually go down. Heck, even their new countermeasures suck: when I go out of my way to notify the editors of dupes or egregious factual errors, they make tabloid-caliber alterations ("WidgetCo is dead!" becomes "Is WidgetCo Dead?") rather than fix or cancel the news story outright.

To carry the Microsoft analogy a step further, being forced by circumstances into depending on Slashdot, I'll find ways to rebel. I go out of my way to avoid enriching Microsoft, whenever some small step is possible. This ranges from avoiding MSN and other Microsoft products, to advocating alternatives whenever company needs are flexible enough. Dialing down my subscription settings and bypassing Slashdot's ad revenue would be an equivalent protest against Slashdot editorial laziness.

Given the above, boycotting Slashdot stands a better chance of helping *my* situation than the alternatives.

Now, how am I'm selfish when I donate my writing without compensation? How am I being selfish when I punish a vendor that refuses to improve after an implicit contract for improvements was made with my donation? How exactly am I being selfish to deny that same vendor any additional income from advertising to me? I AM being selfish to want slashdot to either fix itself or die, but it is a selfishness that is the utter essence of capitalism or evolution: things should have more than marketing or inertia as their means of existing.

If none of that sways you, it'll probably not matter if you reread your rant, changing context to Microsoft (or the RIAA) and adjust the circumstances:

" Are you seriously that self centered that you can't even leave your browser homepage on MSN, after all Microsoft and IE do for you? Nobody is asking you to use Microsoft by any means. I've never heard anyone bitch so much about something that is completely free to them."

or

"... but to be such an asshole as to listen to the radio and yet go out of your way to not support the RIAA labels, that's just bulls**t."

(disclosure: the above opinions weren't mine until 5 minutes ago, probably won't be 10 minutes from now. Why? See Devil's Advocate. I own 10 shares of Microsoft. I donated to Slashdot. Neither gives me any satisfaction.)

Dear Slashdot,

[sootman]

You know, with just the tiniest bit of effort, it would be SO easy for you not to suck out loud.
- take two seconds to see if a story has been posted before. sounds hard, but I hear computers can do amazing things these days.
- proofread submissions. you're allowed to change them. you know, like an editor.
- don't put an obnoxious slant on every little thing. more reporting, less commentary. if you have something to say, I hear slashdot allows comments nowadays. (comments, commentary... hmm. note to self, investigate possible connection.)
- cache. for fuck's sake, it's not funny anymore. if you don't want to put yourselves at risk, use coral or a similar service. They exist for a reason.
- contact small sites. which would you rather do: "scoop" other sites by an hour and reduce the server to molten rubble after 15 minutes, or contact the admin ahead of time and post the story two hours later? this is what separates responsible adults from behaviorally-challenged fuckwads.
- and once you've earned some credibility back,
- ???
- Profit! Until then, I refuse to pay to subscribe until you behave like a responsible outfit. one you quit behaving like retarded woms, I'll happily subscribe, knowing that you're a great source of links to interesting stories that I *didn't* see two days ago on the same site.