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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. Re:Linux Version by tragedy+in+chaos · · Score: 2, Interesting

    They probably over looked it figuring, what with it being Windows and all, that it wasn't going to work properly anyways.

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  2. Re:Too bad they didn't stick with only Linux by cbreaker · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Strange. I am using Ubuntu right now using WPA2 and it seems to be working. Or, I could just be imagining this.

    Which is entirely possible, because I can't understand why someone would be afraid to post a slashdot post without clicking the Anonymous button.

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  3. Re:Windows is NOT a virus by Antique+Geekmeister · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You've obviously not looked at much virus, worm, or malware software. It's mostly crap, assembled by people who think that inventing their own version of a sorting function or a password checker makes them 3l33t. Some of it is insightful, but mostly it's assembled like kids building go-carts from a junkyard of parts.

  4. Re:Too bad they didn't stick with only Linux by Nutria · · Score: 2, Interesting

    When MSI ran into serious trouble with Linux returns,

    The problem is, MSI doesn't say 4x what.

    Thus, it's a meaningless statistic, and every time you read an article that mentions "Linux returns 4x greater than Windows" you wasted time learning nothing.

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