Creative recalls wormy Neeons
p2p news / p2pnet:- Creative admits some of its Zen Neeon mobiles went into the marketplace with a passenger the W32.Wullik.B@mm is a mass-mailing worm.
When the news broke, there wasn`t much available in the way of information in English and a Google beta translation of a Creative press release came out as, It was verified that it is the possibility the extermination possible worm type virus of the risk which is called to the player itself of Creative Zen of the digital audio player who it was produced was shipped from shipment preparation and late July this each time in our company Neeon `W32.Wullik.B@mm` having mixed low.
Symantec describes W32.Wullik.B@mm thus: it tries to send itself to contacts in the Outlook address book and, “makes numerous copies of itself in random locations, and moves to a new location when Windows Explorer browses to the folder from which it runs”.
Creative is “recalling affected products from stores,” says Reuters. “The company estimates that fewer than 50 units were affected, out of 2,900 devices that had been shipped to Japan since September 1″ and “We verify that Creative Zen Neeon shipments going forward will not have this problem,” the company said.
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See:-
extermination possible worm – Creative Zen Neeons: with virus, August 30, 2005
Reuters – Singapore’s Creative says Japan shipments had virus, September 2, 2005
