Creative MP3 Players Ship With Virus

Posted by Zonk on Thursday September 1, 2005 @04:31AM 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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Two in a Row! by Anonymous Coward · 2005-09-01 04:32 · Score: 0, Redundant

One more dupe and I get a tic-tac-toe!
Dupe by Anonymous Coward · 2005-09-01 04:35 · Score: 0, Redundant

Yes, we know!
Patents by lilrowdy18 · 2005-09-01 04:36 · Score: 0, Redundant

Lets see if Creative will patent this.

They could patent an idea of shipping units with preinstalled anti-virus testing software.
Re:Unbelievable by ArsonSmith · 2005-09-01 05:16 · Score: 1, Redundant

It's strange how things reported by slashdot usually happen twice in the same week.

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