Vodafone HTC Magic found to be carrying virus out of the box
It appears that just because something is factory sealed doesn’t necessarily insure that it is free of viruses.
An employee at Panda Research, a maker of anti-virus software, reportedly discovered some malware on her brand new HTC Magic phone from Vodafone according to a post on the corporate blog. Apparently the employee’s antivirus software set off an alarm when she plugged the brand new phone into her work computer, and she was alerted to the presence of a botnet piece of software, as well as Confiker and a Lineage password stealing malware.
The problem was isolated down to the included microSD memory card, and confirmed it was not the phone itself, nor the Android operating system that was responsible.
The company is planning to purchase more of the phones to see if this was an isolated incident or to see if it is perhaps a problem with a shipment of memory cards Vodafone received.
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March 10th, 2010
superb article here at http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:%20/2010/03/09/vodafone-htc-magic-found-to-be-carrying-virus-out-of-the-box/ . Thiking to translating your writing into chinese for our visitors. Will let you know after I talk to our writers. :).
April 5th, 2010
This a big shock for consumers who take large companies for granted as far as quality and security is concerned. Its high time companies take consumer safety and satisfaction, very seriously
July 24th, 2011
I am able to imagine the hard push the button must have been necessary to research for this publish.