McDonalds serves up a McVirus in Japan

Started by iago, October 15, 2006, 07:21:25 PM

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October 15, 2006, 07:21:25 PM
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Via The Blogger News Network.

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McDonalds in Japan seem to have got themselves in a bit of a McPickle.
As an advertising and obviously revenue generating program, they
decided to give away 10,000 mp3 players. Better still, these players
were loaded with 10 songs.

Unfortunately the Q&A process was not what it could have been, all of
the MP3 players came with an unwelcome guest.

As soon as you connected your free McPlayer to your computer a nasty
little piece of computer code scans your hard drive for passwords,
credit card numbers, etc.

With lots of McEgg on their face McDonalds have had to set up an
emergency response phone number to help the winners remove the McVirus.

[snip]

More:
http://www.bloggernews.net/1648

Props, paperghost.
http://www.vitalsecurity.org/2006/10/mcdonalds-serves-up-free-malware.html

- ferg


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Explicit

#1
October 15, 2006, 07:33:24 PM
LOL, that's brilliant.
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Newby

#2
October 15, 2006, 07:37:52 PM
I want a free mp3 player. I'd love to see it read my ext3 file system and collect my passwords. :)
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Quote from: CrAz3D on June 30, 2008, 10:38:22 AM
I'd bet that you're currently bloated like a water ballon on a hot summer's day.

That analogy doesn't even make sense.  Why would a water balloon be especially bloated on a hot summer's day? For your sake, I hope there wasn't too much logic testing on your LSAT. 

Sidoh

#3
October 15, 2006, 07:49:38 PM
ROFL ! ROFL ! ROFL !

AntiVirus

#4
October 15, 2006, 07:51:56 PM
Lmao!!  That's awesome.
The once grove of splendor,
Aforetime crowned by lilac and lily,
Lay now forevermore slender;
And all winds that liven
Silhouette a lone existence;
A leafless oak grasping at eternity.

"They say that I must learn to kill before I can feel safe, but I rather kill myself then turn into their slave."
- The Rasmus

Blaze

#5
October 15, 2006, 10:16:53 PM
Quote from: AntiVirus on October 15, 2006, 07:51:56 PM
Lmao!!  That's awesome.

I have to agree.  :)
And like a fool I believed myself, and thought I was somebody else...

Chavo

#6
October 15, 2006, 11:24:38 PM
Agreed.  Fan-friggin-tastic.

Quik

#7
October 16, 2006, 12:25:54 AM
Who wrote the code that was on the mp3 players in the first place?
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Mythix

#8
October 16, 2006, 12:34:29 AM
It's pretty obvious. The scamburglar.

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iago

#9
October 16, 2006, 09:43:23 AM
Quote from: Newby on October 15, 2006, 07:37:52 PM
I want a free mp3 player. I'd love to see it read my ext3 file system and collect my passwords. :)
That brings up another point that I think is dumb -- computers that will automatically run files off untrusted hardware.  I still think autorun was one of the dumber "features"

Chavo

#10
October 16, 2006, 09:53:20 AM
It doesn't auto-run, it brings up a prompt asking the user to do one of a few things such as open a file explorer or run a program on the device that it wants to run (usually a device controller/setup), or do nothing.  I believe KDE has a very similar feature...

AFAIK the only thing it auto-runs is the plug and play driver

AntiVirus

#11
October 16, 2006, 11:08:09 AM
Quote from: Mythix on October 16, 2006, 12:34:29 AM
It's pretty obvious. The scamburglar.


L M F A O!!
The once grove of splendor,
Aforetime crowned by lilac and lily,
Lay now forevermore slender;
And all winds that liven
Silhouette a lone existence;
A leafless oak grasping at eternity.

"They say that I must learn to kill before I can feel safe, but I rather kill myself then turn into their slave."
- The Rasmus

iago

#12
October 16, 2006, 11:20:39 AM
Quote from: unTactical on October 16, 2006, 09:53:20 AM
It doesn't auto-run, it brings up a prompt asking the user to do one of a few things such as open a file explorer or run a program on the device that it wants to run (usually a device controller/setup), or do nothing.  I believe KDE has a very similar feature...

AFAIK the only thing it auto-runs is the plug and play driver
I think if there's an autorun.inf file, it auto-runs it (like a CD). 

And if KDE does that, then KDE is also stupid. 

Chavo

#13
October 16, 2006, 01:14:27 PM
I could be wrong, but I don't think autorun.ini applies to USB devices.

iago

#14
October 16, 2006, 01:41:27 PM
Quote from: unTactical on October 16, 2006, 01:14:27 PM
I could be wrong, but I don't think autorun.ini applies to USB devices.
I can't find any for-sure info about it.  It seems like speculation and other random FUD. 
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