Asus reports virus loaded into Eee Box PCs

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Asustek Computer's Japanese arm has alerted owners of its new Eee Box low-cost desktop PC that the machine shipped with a virus. The D drive of the Eee Box B202, which launched in Japan last week, contains a virus file named "recycled.exe," Asustek said in a statement. When the drive is opened, the virus begins copying itself to the main C drive on the machine and to any other removable drives or USB memory connected to the computer.

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Ha! Ha!!

They should have stuck with the superior OS they used for the first batch of EEE. Then if a virus file was copied into the system, they could have just asked users to delete a single file.

Well..what does this virus do exactly except replicating itself?

It is created by the VBClick-A trojan. This trojan also overwrites Rundll32.exe. It also tries to disable system file checker so that the overwrite of Rundll32.exe cannot be detected.

they shud stick with linux

Yeah..cost reducing...virus free

Thats why i support tux