TomTom bug bug found found

[Lyte]

Dang! I was just talking about getting one of these! :(

January 29, 2007 (IDG News Service) -- If you've picked up a TomTom GPS (global positioning system) over the past few months, you may have bought more than you bargained for. TomTom International BV confirmed Monday that some of its latest GO 910 devices have shipped with a virus pre-installed.

The infected systems were all manufactured during a one-week period around October 2006, TomTom said in a statement posted to its Web site Monday. The affected systems are running version number 6.51 of the TomTom software.

The company didn't say how it managed to install malware on its products, but it warned that infected versions of the GO will try to copy the malicious software to a PC, when connected. News of the infection was first reported Sunday on the Daniweb.com Web site.

TomTom rated the malware as "low risk" and said that it is detected by many antivirus products. A "small, isolated number" of systems are affected, TomTom said.

Infected GO 910s include Trojan horse and virus software that has been blocked by antivirus vendors since June 2006, said Roel Schouwenberg, a senior research engineer with Kaspersky Lab Ltd.

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[OulZac]

Its beyond me how this keeps happening.
Do these company's not take the time for complete testing before releasing the final product? And are the company's not using scanners in there labs, or are they just getting caught putting these there intentionally. I would almost say they are intentionally doing it, as often as this has happened over the last year.

[dgridley]

I agree with Oulzac.. there's no excuse for this sort of thing getting out of in-house.

[Lyte]

Yeah, this seems like an example of sloppy Q/A.

Lyte