Energizer Bunny writes a trojan horse.

[John Teller]

I remember when companies thought that outsourcing software production 
to that part of the world was a slam-dunk great idea.  Every 
hole-in-the-wall CD duplication service in the east claimed ISO-9001 
status so how could anybody think otherwise?  Maybe it's not so bad to 
overpay someone who may actually have a work ethic.

---JST

Joseph Bento wrote:
> On Mar 8, 2010, at 5:32 PM, andre kesteloot wrote:
>
>   
>> Philip Miller Tate wrote:
>>     
>>> "Energizer is currently working with both CERT and U.S. government officials to understand how the code was inserted in the software,"
>>>
>>> Gosh! I wonder where it was manufactured?
>>>
>>>       
>> Somewhere in the friendly Far Est ?
>> André N4ICK
>> __
>>     
>
> My guess as well. 
>
> At UTA (Utah Transit Authority) where I work, we recently purchased 100 Tait mobile radios as replacements for some of the bus radios.  The 'Manual-on-CD' included with every radio has a trojan that was blocked by Sophos, the corporate virus scanner.  
>
> Tait is a New Zealand company.  I have no knowledge if they produce their own CDs or if they are outsourced.  Regardless, one does not expect a commercial software package to be infected.
>
> I run a MacBook as my primary computer.  The Mac in of itself has never been infected.  However, I recently installed Intego's Virus Barrier for OS-X.  It actually found a couple Windows malware viruses attached to a few stored emails.  No harm to the Mac, but one would not want to forward those emails to another user.  
>
> One of our local news TV / Radio websites uses 3rd party advertising on their website.  They recently had a malware broadcast as part of an advertisement.  All one had to do was mouse over the ad - not even click on it.  (Fortunately for me, this was a Windows attack as well.) The site broadcast an immediate apology and told how to eradicate the virus.  They also said they'd be reevaluating their 3rd party advertising.  I'd hope so.
>
> Joe, N6DGY
>
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