Toshiba TG01 on sale in Germany, with a free virus
O2 IN GERMANY has started selling the Toshiba TG01 Qualcomm 1Ghz Snapdragon chipset based mobile phone, bundled with a virus on its accompanying memory card.
Reported by the German publication inside-handy.de, this is the latest case of a product shipping with a virus. Asus, TomTom and even a Samsung digital picture frame have all fallen afoul of infections at the factory previously.
Toshiba and O2 are currently assessing the damage it's caused and how the virus actually made its way to the memory cards in the first place.
O2 has vowed to replace any infected TG01 handsets with virus-free devices within the next few days.
A lot of bugs have plagued the Microsoft Windows Mobile platform in the past. This may be the very first case where the bug wasn't the Vole's fault. µ
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You made it almost until the end of the article, and there, in the last line, you had to give Microsoft a kicking.
A Vole with a Mole!
One can't help but wonder: Would this have happened if the OS wasn't Windows?
If it were Linux the thing would be called a rootkit.
If it were Macos 10 the thing would be called (a) sin.
Well every cheap chinese media player found on black market comes with free viruses, so I can only guess where this memory was made.
Also, MacOS calls its viruses "user mistakes".
ffs.... youd think they would have thought to md5 the cards and ship them in some pre-determined state; this, at least would be easy to maintain, as we're essentially talking about imaging...
Here ye, Here ye!
There will be a new item that would format sd cards, you plug them one at a time independent from any computers into the device, then it would format them one by one clean.