HTC Android Phones Found With Malware Pre-Installed

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday March 9, 2010 @04:45AM from the saving-users-time-and-effort dept.

Trailrunner7 writes "Security researchers have found that Vodafone, one of the world's larger wireless providers, is distributing some HTC phones with malware pre-installed on them. The phone, HTC's Magic, runs the Google Android mobile operating system, and is one of the more popular handsets right now. A researcher at Panda Software received one of the handsets recently, and upon attaching it to her PC, found that the phone was pre-loaded with the Mariposa bot client. Mariposa has been in the news of late thanks to some arrests connected to the operation of the botnet."

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Re:Technically, not installed... by bhtooefr · 2010-03-09 05:03 · Score: 0, Flamebait

The branding is done at the manufacturer, though. Silkscreening is done at the same time as manufacturer logos, and firmware preload is done at the manufacturer.
Re:Technically, not installed... by Viol8 · 2010-03-09 05:17 · Score: 0, Flamebait

*sigh*
Don't microsoft *ever* learn?
Thank god I bailed out of Windows years ago.