Creative admitted this week to shipping aproximately 4000 of its Zen Neon music players with a preloaded surprise for users. All 4000 or so players were infected with the Wullik.b worm. Creative posted the following serial numbers that were infected: 1230528000001 through 1230533001680
All of these infected players were shipped to Japan, and all other shipments have been held while Creative checks for other infections. Read the story here.
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These kind of portable threats will emerge, since usb music player devices are developing quite rapidly, this incident with creative players being infected and put out to market is a bright evidence.