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Arimus Regular Visitor
Joined: 25/11/2002 13:13:12 Posts: 117 Location: Wales, United Kingdom
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Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 10:33 am Post subject: Trojans |
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Just browsing slashdot while waiting for some scripts to complete at work and came across this story:-
Quote: | "TomTom has admitted to a UK security journalist that a number of GO 910 satellite navigation units shipped with two Trojans installed on the hard drive. But still no sign of an official warning on the TomTom website." |
http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry1276.html |
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Robin2 Lifetime Member
Joined: Nov 24, 2003 Posts: 1441 Location: Swansea
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Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 11:03 am Post subject: |
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This has been extensively discussed on this forum, for example here
Robin _________________ TomTom One v3 Europe, Navcore 7.903, Western Europe 835.2420
TomTom Go 720 Europe, Navcore 8.351, Western Europe 855.2884
Satmap Active 10
Plus a lot of other PDA GPS kit, seldom used |
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Arimus Regular Visitor
Joined: 25/11/2002 13:13:12 Posts: 117 Location: Wales, United Kingdom
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Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 11:14 am Post subject: |
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Ah, lock this one then, I just noticed it while playing /. |
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classy56 Frequent Visitor
Joined: Sep 08, 2006 Posts: 441 Location: Dorset
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Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 5:22 pm Post subject: |
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It is worrying that the units come with nasty infections, but as the units run under linux and there is no reason why you would execute an exe file on the unit from windows, I can't see any danger. _________________ Tomtom Go730T
App 8.300
Map v815.2003
To old to die young. |
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Antoeknee Lifetime Member
Joined: Jul 29, 2005 Posts: 267
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Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 6:40 pm Post subject: |
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Now admitted by TT as infected with win32.Perlovga.A Trojan and TR/Drop.Small.qp.
Apparently its been reported that there is another malicious bit on the infected devices namely Backdoor.Win32.Small.lo which is more of a risk thatn the other two. |
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sgould Frequent Visitor
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Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 7:59 pm Post subject: |
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Probably no risk on the GO, but would be a risk to a PC when you make a backup. _________________ TTGO 700 (dead)
iPhone 3GS + TT holder
iPhone 5 (hers!)
Western Europe Map
Eastern Europe Map
Kenwood DNX-4210DAB with Garmin maps |
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Antoeknee Lifetime Member
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Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 11:49 pm Post subject: |
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Quote from Tweakers.net
This last piece of malware holds more risks for the user than the first two, and it's installed onto the system by Drop.Small.qp, just like Perlovga is. Especially annoying is the fact that this malware can be automatically run with the help of the autorun.inf file when the TomTom GO 910 is connected to the computer, making the risk larger than assumed at first. |
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