McDonalds Serves Up Free Malware Burger in Japan

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Via The Blogger News Network.

[snip]

McDonalds in Japan seem to have got themselves in a bit of a McPickle.
As an advertising and obviously revenue generating program, they
decided to give away 10,000 mp3 players. Better still, these players
were loaded with 10 songs.

Unfortunately the Q&A process was not what it could have been, all of
the MP3 players came with an unwelcome guest.

As soon as you connected your free McPlayer to your computer a nasty
little piece of computer code scans your hard drive for passwords,
credit card numbers, etc.

With lots of McEgg on their face McDonalds have had to set up an
emergency response phone number to help the winners remove the McVirus.

[snip]

More:
http://www.bloggernews.net/1648

Props, paperghost.
http://www.vitalsecurity.org/2006/10/mcdonalds-serves-up-free-malware.html

- ferg


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 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg(at)netzero.net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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