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Author: Gareth Halfacree Published: 9th October 2008 Purchasers of Asus' Eee Box mini-desktop systems got more than they bargained for thanks to a worm living on the D: drive. Asus has officially confirmed that certain versions of its pint-sized Eee Box desktop PC shipped with a virus on the hard drive's second partition. The Windows XP-based computers came with a copy of the W32/Usbalex worm according to an article over on The Register. By placing an autorun.inf file on the D: drive, the worm – disguised under the filename of recycled.exe – is able to get itself automatically executed when a user double-clicks the second partition in My Computer. Once the program is run, it attempts to copy itself to the main system partition and any removable drives currently attached to the system. While Asus has admitted the existence of... [read full story]
