HTC Android Phones Found With Malware Pre-Installed 158
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Trailrunner7 writes "Security researchers have found that Vodafone, one of the world's larger wireless providers, is distributing some HTC phones with malware pre-installed on them. The phone, HTC's Magic, runs the Google Android mobile operating system, and is one of the more popular handsets right now. A researcher at Panda Software received one of the handsets recently, and upon attaching it to her PC, found that the phone was pre-loaded with the Mariposa bot client. Mariposa has been in the news of late thanks to some arrests connected to the operation of the botnet."
Technically, not installed... (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Technically, not installed... (Score:3, Informative)
And if it's an autorun file, that means only XP and earlier, and very stupid users are vulnerable. Vista and 7 don't execute Autorun.exe by default.
Re:Technically, not installed... (Score:4, Informative)
Wrong [wikipedia.org], it was replaced with Autorun.inf, and Vista/7 do execute it if you choose to “Autoplay” the device. I believe the dialog will appear first to ask you what you want to do, but “Autoplay” is the top choice and is selected by default.
Re:Technically, not installed... (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Technically, not installed... (Score:3, Informative)
No... it will autoplay if you give it permission to autoplay.
You don’t tell it to. It asks, and the default option is to allow it. All you have to do is click Ok.