McDonalds gives away malware infected mp3 players as prizes
October 15th, 2006 . by joe
It appears that McDonalds in Japan had a giveaway where the prize was an mp3 player infected with qqpass. Why would McDonalds ever think they could get away with this??
In all 10,000 winners were announced and each got a Mac branded flash DAP preloaded with 10 tunes. However the MP3 players were infected with QQpass a very dangerous malware. So your PC is infected once you connect the DAP and it starts logging and transmitting username, passwords and other vital information. McDonalds Japan has apologized and set up a 24 hour helpline for those affected by the spyware loaded MP3 player.
Link [ Via BoingBoing ]
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