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Asus Ships Eee PCs With Malware

Posted by timothy on from the well-there's-your-first-mistake dept.

An anonymous reader writes "'According to an email sent out by Asus, PC Advisor reports, the Eee Box's 80GB hard drive has the recycled.exe virus files hidden in the drive's D: partition. When the drive is opened, the virus activates and attempts to infect the C: drive and any removable drives connected to the system.'"

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  1. Inaccurate Title by TrekkieTechie · · Score: 5, Informative

    "Eee PC" =/= "Eee Box"

    The Eee PC is Asus' line of netbooks. The Eee Box is Asus' line of nettops. While in some ways they are similar, in other important ways they are very different products.