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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."
Don't act like an idiot, it's obvious what I meant.
No... you used all caps, so I wasn’t sure. I merely said he was wrong.
So AndrewNeo was right then, not wrong.
Oh for crying out loud. No, he was wrong. Do you not understand the word “default”? It doesn’t mean the computer won’t ask. It means you’ll have to tell it otherwise if you don’t want the “default”, and whether that means holding down Shift (in Windows XP) or clicking “Cancel” in Vista or 7, the “default” is still to autoplay. They just made it a lot more obvious how to prevent the default from happening (nobody even knew that you could avoid the default autorun by holding down shift).
Vista and Windows 7 do not immediately run the autorun, without asking you at all like Windows XP did. That’s an improvement. However, the option to run the autorun is still the DEFAULT option.
Alexander Peter Kristopeit bought his basement from his mommy for one dollar.
Vista and 7 don't execute Autorun.exe by default.
They do not execute Autorun.exe (or inf, w/e) by default, they ask if you want to execute the default. In the world of autorun, that is a massive difference.
Once again, AndrewNeo is right: Windows Vista and 7 do not execute *anything* by default, unlike XP. They *ask* if you want to execute.