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Memory Cards of 3,000 Phones Infected By Malware
itwbennett sends us a few links from IT World tracing a story about infected microSD cards in Vodaphone-supplied mobile phones. "The original report came on March 8 after an employee of Panda Security plugged a newly ordered HTC Magic phone from Vodafone into a Windows computer, where it triggered an alert from the antivirus software. Further inspection of the phone found the device's 8GB microSD memory card was infected with a client for the now-defunct Mariposa botnet, the Conficker worm, and a password stealer for the Lineage game. At that point it was at thought to be an issue with a specific refurbished phone. On Wednesday another phone surfaced with traces of the Mariposa botnet. And now Vodafone is saying that as many as 3,000 HTC Magic phones may be affected."
I sense the Evil Hand of Steve Jobs behind this!!!!
"The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old......They literally know nothing." - Ben Rhodes
When you take the number of HTC Magic phones that shipped, and subtract the number that were returned, you get 3,000.
OK, that was mean. I've gotta get outside.
Does Apple have a patent on this already?
No bark... no fruit!
Glad I use Virgin Mobile!
Like Amiga nobody's ever heard of it... not even virus writers.
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