“Looks like somebody turned off the virus scanner at the Creative production plant—it would appear that about 3,700 5GB Zen Neeons shipped since July might have possibly been packing a W32.Wullik.B@mm payload,” Ryan Block reports for Engadget.
Full article here.
According to Symantec, W32.Wullik.B@mm is a mass-mailing worm that attempts to send itself to all the contacts in the Outlook address book and affects users subjected to Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT, and Windows XP. Macintosh unaffected. The worm makes numerous copies of itself in random locations, and moves to a new location when Windows Explorer browses to the folder from which it runs. It can spread to floppy disks and shared network drives under some conditions. More info here.
Creative’s press release (translated from Japanese) here.
My favorite part about this is that if you look along the right side of the page, there’s an advertisment for a way to get a free Creative Zen.
Umm… yeah… keep it.
Creative virality?
I guess they lowered the requirements to work at Creative becaue, YOU WOULD HAVE TO BE AN IDIOT TO HAVE A VIRUS SHIPPED WITH YOUR PRODUCTS AND REALIZE IT A MONTH LATER!!
Reason #1243124 Why Apple is better : They don’t employ morons.
When will the madness end!?!
When will Apple start *really* marketing their better computing experience, i.e. OS X et al?
It makes no sense to wipe the planet clean of the dog shit that is Windows right now.
Her name is Rio and she dances on the sand…
Watch out Creative you may be next.
Liability? I wonder if this is the first time that a company’s product has shipped with a virus or worm. If so, what is Creative’s liability if they destroy data or cause someone to have to go out a purchase a virus program to remove this. How would a consumer go about removing this virus? Is Creative going to pay for a virus software for this HUGE mistake? Wow, way to go Creative!
The shake-up is starting to happen. First Rio, next Creative, then Napster and Real.