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HTC Android Phones Found With Malware Pre-Installed

Posted by Soulskill on 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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  1. It's not a bug by elrous0 · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's an undocumented feature!

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    1. Re:It's not a bug by Monkeedude1212 · · Score: 4, Funny

      You think THATS bad - I got my HTC phone with Windows Mobile 6.1 Pre Installed!

  2. Pre-installed by 0racle · · Score: 3, Funny

    No user intervention, IT JUST WORKS

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    "I use a Mac because I'm just better than you are."
  3. Please by oldhack · · Score: 5, Funny

    Linux is not a malware. Such smear tactic at slashdot must stop.

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  4. Re:Now THAT's Multitasking! by genghisjahn · · Score: 5, Funny

    Unfortunately, as an iPhone user, if I want to get malware my only option is to get it through the app store.

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    Sorry about the mess.