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TomTom Shipped Viruses on its Navigation Devices

Tom Espiner writes on C|Net News:

Satellite navigation company TomTom has admitted that it shipped two viruses on a number of its devices.

According to the company, a "small number" of TomTom GO 910 satellite navigation devices were shipped last year with malicious software preinstalled.

According to tech journalist Davey Winder, who blogged about the problem, the GO 910 units were running version 6.51 of TomTom's software. Winder found that the two pieces of malicious software are win32.Perlovga.A Trojan and TR/Drop.Small.qp, and are resident on the satellite-navigation hard drive within the copy.exe and host.exe files.

Winder reported that when a user complained to TomTom about the security breach, he was told that the problem was not serious and was advised to remove the Trojans with antivirus software.

posted by Fergie @ 1/29/2007 09:46:00 AM