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Asus admits Eee Box mini PC shipped with virus

by Marianna Schmudlach Oct 8, 2008 1:48AM PDT

By Tony Smith [More by this author]
8th October 2008 12:10 GMT
Asus has admitted that some of the its Eee Box desktop mini PCs have shipped with a virus.

But while the company has only admitted the infection was present in machines shipped to Japan, Register Hardware can confirm that other territories may be affected too.

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 an removable drives connected to the system.

More: http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/10/08/asus_eee_box_virus/

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