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Malware Found On Brand-New Windows Netbook
An anonymous reader alerts us to an interesting development that Kaspersky Labs stumbled across. They purchased a new M&A Companion Touch netbook in order to test a new anti-virus product targeted at the netbook segment, and discovered three pieces of malware on the factory-sealed netbook. A little sleuthing turned up the likely infection scenario — at the factory, someone was updating Intel drivers using a USB flash drive that was infected with a variant of the AutoRun worm. "Installed along with the worm was a rootkit and a password stealer that harvests log-in credentials for online games such as World of Warcraft. ... To ensure that a new PC is malware-free, [Kaspersky] recommended that before users connect the machine to the Internet, they install security software, update it by retrieving the latest definition file on another computer, and transferring that update to the new system, then running a full antivirus scan."
And what exactly would Kaspersky do with Linux...?
Next time, at least try to RTFS please.
HURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR what a funny and original joke!!
Those iPods and picture frames shipped with Windows malware on them. Who really gives a crap if your linux netbook comes with windows malware on it? It's not like you are going to be mounting your netbook on a windows computer and having it autorun some nasty shit.
Hell, even if the linux netbook came with linux malware preinstalled I don't think I'd be mad, just impressed.... ;)
"linux is just DOS with a UNIX like syntax" -- Galactic Dominator (944134)
You have to be shitting me right? These posts are exactly why I wish this was the year of the linux desktop. If linux had a majority of the desktop market don't think for one moment that it wouldn't see targeted attacks. The source of the malware is banking on the widest user base. They don't give one shit what OS you're running. If the user base numbers were reversed it would be linux malware on those devices not windows.
Don't think of it as a flame, more like an argument that does 3d6 fire damage.
Clearly, it was. After all, it got a +5 score, with the "Funny" adjective attached. To the moderators, it must have been as funny as you describe.
Let q be a radix > 1. I am in ur base-q, killing 10 d00ds.