Samsung Wave ships with malware-infected memory card
June 5, 2010 by admin
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Take care if you’ve recently bought a Samsung S8500 Wave smartphone – it could have come pre-installed with malware on its memory card.
According to reports, the 1GB microSD card that ships with the sexy bada touch-screen smartphone carries an unwelcome surprise – a piece of malware that can automatically run if you plug the card into your Windows computer.
The tell-tale sign of infection is the existence of the aUtoRuN.iNF and slmsrv.exe files on the microSD card. If you haven’t configured your Windows computer to ignore the autorun command, then when you plug the card into your PC the malicious slmsrv.exe file will be executed.
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I just borrowed one of these for 24 hours. I didnt look to confirm this but i sure wish i did!! That sounds like a major security lapse on there behalf. Do you have any updates?