Asus Eee Box PCs Come Loaded With a Virus

[steveseguin]

Asus recently admitted that Eee Box PCs released in Japan last week were infected with a virus

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[hellwig]

D'Oh. Sounds like someone used their own personal thumbdrive to copy data to the machine they based the release image on. I would think that any machine built specifically to browse the internet using Windows should come with a basic anti-virus pre-installed. I doubt the Atom could handle Norton or McAfee, but there are other ones out there. Heck, I manually scan my Cloudbook with Avast! for Linux just for kicks.

 

[Guest]

I have run into two instances of malware that use autorun.inf to launch within the space of two weeks. On the face of it, autorun is turning out to be a really dumb (insecure) idea. The way it's implemented, Windows does not even differentiate between removable and non removable drives. I have been searching for a simple, easy way to just turn autorun off without succes. How long will it be before Microsoft release a patch to fix this? Score 1 for open source/linux. I'm running Linux (Ubuntu 7.10) on my laptop so I don't have malware issues. The malware I have encountered is on other systems that friends have asked me to clean up.

 

[jhansonxi]

I checked on the Wine AppDB but W32/Usbalex isn't listed. Has anyone got it working on Linux with Wine?