Friday, June 02, 2006

HP Distributes 'Funlove' Virus -- Again

A PC World article by Robert McMillan, via Yahoo! News, reports that:

Hewlett-Packard yesterday pulled a printer driver from its Web site after security vendor BitDefender reported that the software was infected with the same computer virus that infected HP's drivers more than five years ago.

A BitDefender partner notified the security vendor of the infected driver software earlier this week, and the company's security researchers soon determined that it had the same Funlove virus that had plagued HP in December 2000.

BitDefender notified HP of the problem on Wednesday and the infected printer driver was removed from HP's Web site early Thursday, said BitDefender spokesman Vitor Souza.

More here.

posted by Fergie @ 6/02/2006 08:58:00 AM

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