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Tom-Tom has a malware issue

Published January 31st, 2007 in Malware

While only a few number of Tom-Tom GPS (specifically, the GO 910’s) units were reported, the Amsterdam-based company stated that some of these models try to install malware onto PC’s. What a shame; those devices looked so cool.

Some TomTom satellite navigational devices used to keep drivers on the right road shipped with malicious code that tries to install onto any Windows PC the gizmo is connected to, the Amsterdam-based company confirmed Monday.

A “small, isolated number of TomTom GO 910’s” manufactured during the fourth quarter of 2006 “may be infected by a virus,” TomTom said in a statement. Althouth the TomTom GO 910 runs Linux and so is not affected by the malware, when the hardware is connected to a PC to back up its data, the virus tries to infect the computer.[more]

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