Posted by Ablang on 09/02/05 06:16

Creative Ships Wormy MP3 Players

Devices contain a worm that could infect a user's PC.

James Niccolai, IDG News Service
Thursday, September 01, 2005

Creative Technology has accidentally shipped almost 4000 digital music
players in Japan that contain a Windows worm, according to an advisory
from Finnish security company F-Secure.

The 5GB Zen Neeon players, which have been shipping for two months,
contain the Wullik.B e-mail worm, also known as Rays.A, F-Secure says.

The worm is buried in a file in the Neeon's file system.

Infected File

The worm will not infect PCs unless a user browses through the files
on the player and clicks on the infected file, F-Secure says.

Creative, based in Tokyo, did not immediately reply to a request for
comment.

The company has reported on its Web site in Japanese that the worm
affects players with serial numbers between 1230528000001 and
1230533001680, F-Secure says.

Wullik.B is more than two years old.

It spreads by sending itself via e-mail and dropping itself into
shared folders.

http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,122384,tk,dn090105X,00.asp


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