Apparently, they thought phones were invulnerable to viruses.
Why else would they not have tested the cards and phones prior to shipping?
Report: Memory card exposed 3,000 phones to virus
Summary
Vodafone has discovered that malware found on several HTC Magic phones it distributed came from the memory cards.
Topics
Vodafone has discovered that malware found on several HTC Magic phones it distributed came from the memory cards, which were shipped in about 3,000 HTC and other phones, according to a published report.
Spanish language blog Movil Zona reported that Vodafone said it was immediately sending new memory cards to people who bought phones using those cards.
After malware related to the Mariposa botnet was discovered on a second HTC Magic phone from Vodafone this week, a Vodafone spokesperson issued a statement to CNET on Thursday saying it was a "local incident in Spain."
For more on this story, read Report: Memory card exposed 3,000 phones to virus on CNET News.
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satovey@...22nd Mar 2010 -
You should format all new cards and memory devices
So many stories have come out in the last couple of years of meory cards and other devices with internal memory in comming with viruses already on them, as well as external hard drives. There was the USB connected digital Photo Frame story just a few months back traced to a virus in the testing computers infecting the photo frames. I would not be suprised if Malware people where paying people at these manafacturing plants to slip these infections into the supply chain. There are just to many of these cases to all be acidental infections.
NZJester22nd Mar 2010 -
Idea
Have any of these people every heard of erase and reformatting memory
cards? Takes no more than 30 seconds.
thronka23rd Mar 2010
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