Asus Ships Eee PCs With Malware 124
An anonymous reader writes "'According to an email sent out by Asus, PC Advisor reports, the Eee Box's 80GB hard drive has the recycled.exe virus files hidden in the drive's D: partition. When the drive is opened, the virus activates and attempts to infect the C: drive and any removable drives connected to the system.'"
How did they... (Score:5, Funny)
Quite an accomplishment ... (Score:3, Funny)
Asus... (Score:1, Funny)
FFFail.
Appropriate for the D drive (Score:5, Funny)
D:
Windows is NOT a virus (Score:5, Funny)
No, Windows is not a virus. Here's what viruses do:
* They replicate quickly - okay, Windows does that.
* Viruses use up valuable system resources, slowing down the system as they do so - okay, Windows does that.
* Viruses will, from time to time, trash your hard disk - okay, Windows does that too.
* Viruses are usually carried, unknown to the user, along with valuable programs and systems. Sigh... Windows does that, too.
* Viruses will occasionally make the user suspect their system is too slow (see 2) and the user will buy new hardware. Yup, that's with Windows, too.
Until now it seems Windows is a virus but there are fundamental differences:Viruses are well supported by their authors, are running on most systems, their program code is fast, compact and efficient and they tend to become more sophisticated as they mature.
So Windows is not a virus.
It's a bug.
Too bad they didn't stick with only Linux (Score:5, Funny)
...then maybe this wouldn't have happened?
Take a great concept- the netbook... a small, light, inexpensive, flash-based, long-battery life, Linux based system. Then ruin it by making it a large, heavier, expensive, hard-drive based, medium battery life, MS-Windows based system.
Oh well. I guess some people didn't "get it".
Linux Version (Score:5, Funny)
I bet it doesn't come on the Linux version.
When will we get equal treatment from hardware vendors?
Re:Close, but no cigar (Score:3, Funny)
Hey, there's an idea!
/runs off to the shop to buy a spray can of paint.
Wow. Just... wow. (Score:3, Funny)
I don't know if it's because I'm running on no sleep, or that images of patch panels are swimming in front of my eyes due to a late-night rack-a-thon, but that was one fine rant.
Re:Linux Version (Score:4, Funny)
Shouldn't be hard and will achieve the same thing.
What's that, watching people download porn or blag stuff to Facebook?
You should never use one of these for anything serious anyway, you can get root on one of them by scratching its belly and rubbing its ears.
Re:Close, but no cigar (Score:3, Funny)
Re:That's why you shut off auto-pwn (Score:4, Funny)
hack the registry? that sounds hard i think im just going to install gentoo instead.