McDonald's MP3 players ship with trojan horse

Nina 10-16-2006

What do tubby teens, MP3 players, and grandma's scalded taint all have in common? That's right, the absolute attention of McDonald's legal. See, McDonald's and Coca-Cola recently teamed up in Japan to give away 10,000 self-branded MP3 players pre-loaded with 10 spankin' new tunes and... some delicious malware. It seems that a "portion" of the players sport a variant of the QQPass family of trojan horses which capture passwords and other personal information when the MP3 player is plugged into the users' PC. The code then proceeds to email the details to the author. McDonald's has setup a 24 hour hotline while they are investigating the matter and will swap out all the offending players. Good times.

BonitaPajarita

DAUMN!



Sux to be them.

Raven

I had to re-read this about 10 times becuase something wasn'ting catching in my head about this. Who would want a McKiddies MP3 Player ... ont he last time I realized what line my eyes was skipping over. 2 small words ... "give away". The power of reading.

Pussy

This is just trying to jump on the trend of people having mp3 players. If you notice alot of people are wanting it on the cell phones and stuff as well.

Hsoolien

IT's sort of one of those gimmick features they can all of a sudden put on everything. The first few generations of mp3 phone (like mine) are retarded though, there is no headphone support and a piddly 32MB storage. Eventually everything will be a cell phne as well as a camer as well as a mp3... wait it's already happned. People just like conveninace, less stuff to carry = better even if they lose a bit in the merging