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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. First Prime Factorization Post by 2*2*3*75011 · · Score: -1, Troll

    1230528000001 = 19*64764631579
    1230533001680 = 2*2*2*2*5*5101*3015421

  2. HAHA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    HAHA Damn windows users

  3. If he lived in New Orleans... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    If Zonk lived in New Orleans, he'd be one of the looters. This duping behaviour is simply criminal.

  4. Re:No subscription for me by ArsonSmith · · Score: -1, Troll

    I missed a lot from last week and this seems to be a good article. I don't have time to browse through all the history so I personally am glad they duped this article.

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  5. Re:When "News for Netrds" Mattered by multiplexo · · Score: -1, Troll
    How do the dupe articles make it through when I submit articles that get rejected - like news on non-volitile MRAM replacing volitile DRAM and how Freescale is getting closer and closer to this being reality.

    That's something nerds can sink their teath into, but the editors reject it for "more of the same".

    The reason your articles are rejected is simple, you haven't let CmdrTaco come over to your house and teabag you yet. Once you've wrapped your lips around your scrotum and orally pleasured him then your articles will be posted, but if you want to be a link whore like Roland P. you have to go all the way and give him a suck and rim.

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  6. Re:Yeah, and SPACE.com ships with exploit by vrioux · · Score: -1, Troll

    Hm, seems like slashdot has some kind of protection for that crap. Oh, well now it works.