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HTC Android Phones Found With Malware Pre-Installed
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."
It's an undocumented feature!
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
No user intervention, IT JUST WORKS
"I use a Mac because I'm just better than you are."
Linux is not a malware. Such smear tactic at slashdot must stop.
Fuck systemd. Fuck Redhat. Fuck Soylent, too. Wait, scratch the last one.
Enough said.
Queue the parade of iPhone drummers.
BTW, I wonder if this is one of the patents Apple is suing over
The bigger problem is that this is HTC, who also produces the Nexus for Google proper. Even if the attack vector was an employee at the store, it gives people a moment of pause. When was the last time you saw a Blackberry, Palm, Nokia, LG, Windows Mobile, or iPhone distributed with Malware from the store? (Other than anything with vCast)
"The problem with socialism is eventually you run out of other people's money" - Thatcher.
So, is THIS what Apple was suing HTC over at the International Trade Commission? Does Apple have a patent on preloaded malware on smartphones?
If they do I'm sure Microsoft can claim prior art.
I see you want to install a Windows virus. Proceed?
"I believe in Karma. That means I can do bad things to people all day long and I assume they deserve it." : Dogbert
It was a bunch of pictures of this guy and his girlfriend in new york. there was also short video of him playing a guitar with his shirt off - i shit you not. i returned the phone and bitched the rogers guy out, and i got a $50 gift card. i now order my phones directly from rogers over the phone and then have them shipped to rogers video stores, instead of buying the phones in stock at rogers-licensed stores.