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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. How did they... by SupremoMan · · Score: 5, Funny

    get Vista to run on that thing?

  2. Appropriate for the D drive by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    D:

  3. Windows is NOT a virus by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    No, Windows is not a virus. Here's what viruses do:

            * They replicate quickly - okay, Windows does that.

            * Viruses use up valuable system resources, slowing down the system as they do so - okay, Windows does that.

            * Viruses will, from time to time, trash your hard disk - okay, Windows does that too.

            * Viruses are usually carried, unknown to the user, along with valuable programs and systems. Sigh... Windows does that, too.

            * Viruses will occasionally make the user suspect their system is too slow (see 2) and the user will buy new hardware. Yup, that's with Windows, too.

    Until now it seems Windows is a virus but there are fundamental differences:Viruses are well supported by their authors, are running on most systems, their program code is fast, compact and efficient and they tend to become more sophisticated as they mature.

    So Windows is not a virus.

    It's a bug.

  4. 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.