Friday, June 4, 2010

Samsung S8500 Wave sold in Germany infected with a virus

The technophiles German throwing himself on the new smartphone Wave S8500 had the unpleasant surprise to discover that came with a virus.

It turns out that the 1GB MicroSD card supplied with the machine was infected by a Trojan called Win32/Heur, ready to invest any computer with autorun enabled, the mobile phone which would been connected. Win32/Heur then handles decorate the infected computer malware of all kinds, to slow down, or to display popup ads. It also takes good care to settle on the keys or hard drives connected via USB to the PC infected.

So much intrusive malware that was found suggested to many customers Teutonic, following an indelicate handling of Samsung. The South Korean manufacturer has responded to the call by the website Mobile Burn , confirming that only Germany was affected by this problem. The brand has, for the moment, not given details about the compensation of victims of this virus buyers.

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