Creative Technology has accidentally shipped almost 4000 digital music players in Japan that contain a Windows worm, according to an advisory from Finnish security company F-Secure.
The 5GB Zen Neeon players, which have been shipping for two months, contain the Wullik.B e-mail worm, also known as Rays.A, F-Secure says.
The worm is buried in a file in the Neeon's file system.
The worm will not infect PCs unless a user browses through the files on the player and clicks on the infected file, F-Secure says.
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