P3GO GT-Break unit shipped out with a trojan on it.

[Rydian]

If you don't know, the P3GO is a very advanced device compared to most other jailbreaks. It acts as a USB memory when connected to a computer so you can place pkg-files and such there.

It is when inserting the device to your computer that the trojan hits.

The trojan is then trying to upload your passwords and banking information to a remote server. It also makes the computer copy the virus to all other USB-devices inserted to the computer from thereon, and thats how the trojan spreads.

[...] the autorun-file was created on the 11th of November, just a couple of days before the device got shipped to me. This is most likely the date the device got infected, but it is impossible to know if this device actually was infected directly from the manufacturer or after that.

[...] the retail packaging isn't sealed, so it's easy to get the device out, use it and place it back again with nobody noticing[/p]

http://virusscan.jotti.org/en/scanresult/a...69d9cb47c1cae9e

Source

Not that surprising that a company dealing in products like this wouldn't bother virus-scanning the system they set them up on, but something like this is trivial to find and prevent...

 

[Joe88]

this isnt really news

im pretty sure the infection came from the users computer
everybody else including myself confirmed there were no viruses on it, just pkg files and txt documents

its not exactly a reputable person either, just a random person on the forum

 

[DaRk_ViVi]

this isnt really news

im pretty sure the infection came from the users computer
everybody else including myself confirmed there were no viruses on it, just pkg files and txt documents

its not exactly a reputable person either, just a random person on the forum

Have you tried looking into hidden/system files?
Or you can try by going into the USB Key, and switching the address in the address bar from X:\ (X -> your Drive Letter) to X:\autorun.inf.
If it says file not found then it should be clean.

 

[Rydian]

These infections go after everything that identifies itself as a mass storage device and he claims there's no sign of it on any of his other removable devices, furthermore the date stamp of the autorun file is later than all the other dates, indicating it was most likely infected after it came from the factory (as in, not placed alongside the original firmware files).

 

[shakirmoledina]

i shouldnt say this but the person's a pirater (most probably) so it serves us right
what are the chances tht something like this can happen? avast says 1/8 attacks come from a usb device... usb are always risky as more experienced ppl will tell u

 

[Law]

i shouldnt say this but the person's a pirater (most probably) so it serves us right
what are the chances tht something like this can happen? avast says 1/8 attacks come from a usb device... usb are always risky as more experienced ppl will tell u

solution: don't put usb keys random people on the street give you into your windows box

 

[Another World]

my acekard rpg shipped from dealextreme with a usb virus on it. news had been going around that this was happening to a few users who purchased the rpg about 3 months before acekard stopped selling it for good. the rpg came with software already installed and each user who i talked to back then ordered it from dealextreme. this type of stuff happens and i'm sure the virus wasn't placed there on purpose.

-another world

 

[Rydian]

i shouldnt say this but the person's a pirater (most probably) so it serves us right
what are the chances tht something like this can happen? avast says 1/8 attacks come from a usb device... usb are always risky as more experienced ppl will tell u

solution: don't put usb keys random people on the street give you into your windows box

They infect the computers they're attached to as well, which then infect any other drive plugged in.

They usually run rampant in school systems, where people are constantly plugging drives in. One person's drive has an infection, and it quickly spreads to other drives and then other computers.

 

[Law]

i shouldnt say this but the person's a pirater (most probably) so it serves us right
what are the chances tht something like this can happen? avast says 1/8 attacks come from a usb device... usb are always risky as more experienced ppl will tell u

solution: don't put usb keys random people on the street give you into your windows box

They infect the computers they're attached to as well, which then infect any other drive plugged in.

They usually run rampant in school systems, where people are constantly plugging drives in. One person's drive has an infection, and it quickly spreads to other drives and then other computers.

As long as you don't plug it into your own windows box though you should be fine (school computers are terrible anyway).

 

[Rydian]

(school computers are terrible anyway).

I go into class and sit down to a less-than-a-month-old lenovo desktop with a core i5 and windows 7 with admin rights.

The guy in front of me likes to play half-life: source between classes.

 

[Law]

(school computers are terrible anyway).

I go into class and sit down to a less-than-a-month-old lenovo desktop with a core i5 and windows 7 with admin rights.

The guy in front of me likes to play half-life: source between classes.

terrible in the sense that another virus won't really hurt it if the network is as bad as you say when it comes to viruses.

also: half life source? really? I don't see why you had to mention that when trying to point out why the computers aren't terrible spec-wise. "Oh hey and they can run this game that's on this engine that you can run on 10 year old hardware"

 

[indask8]

I have one P3GO, mine wasn't infected at all when I bought it.

This is either the user computer which infected it or the reseller...

Anyway, any windows users should disable autorun on usb drives as soon as windows is installed on their system (if you use linux or mac os, ignore this, you have the best built in antivirus of the world ^^).

And has someone is saying on another forum:

This single incident is getting blown WAY out of proportion and is spreading onto other forums... May appear to be a marketing ploy to advert people away from the great P3Go GT and onto their product.

 

[prowler]

(if you use linux or mac os, ignore this, you have the best built in antivirus of the world ^^).

It's not that they have the best AV in the world, it's that there isn't many viruses for the OS.

 

[indask8]

It's not that they have the best AV in the world, it's that there isn't many viruses for the OS.

I know, what I said was a "metaphor".

 

[Rydian]

My point was it depends on the school system. I've never even heard of an infection going through ours, for example... but if you go down to middle and high schools they run rampant.

 

[Sir-Fritz]

(school computers are terrible anyway).

I go into class and sit down to a less-than-a-month-old lenovo desktop with a core i5 and windows 7 with admin rights.

The guy in front of me likes to play half-life: source between classes.

terrible in the sense that another virus won't really hurt it if the network is as bad as you say when it comes to viruses.

also: half life source? really? I don't see why you had to mention that when trying to point out why the computers aren't terrible spec-wise. "Oh hey and they can run this game that's on this engine that you can run on 10 year old hardware"

Exaggeration much, you cant run source on 10 year old hardware.

 

[Law]

(school computers are terrible anyway).

I go into class and sit down to a less-than-a-month-old lenovo desktop with a core i5 and windows 7 with admin rights.

The guy in front of me likes to play half-life: source between classes.

terrible in the sense that another virus won't really hurt it if the network is as bad as you say when it comes to viruses.

also: half life source? really? I don't see why you had to mention that when trying to point out why the computers aren't terrible spec-wise. "Oh hey and they can run this game that's on this engine that you can run on 10 year old hardware"

Exaggeration much, you cant run source on 10 year old hardware.

Half Life 2 (which runs on the source engine) was released in 2004. It is highly likely that you would have been able to run Half Life 2 with 4 year old hardware.

I remember running HL2 on a GeForce4 MX 440 (64MB), and that was released in 2002 (and was low-end).

 

[redact]

i remember buying a gba clone on dx and having it ship with a trojan

 

[Costello]

you have to understand that most computers in china run Internet Explorer 6, because all the corporate websites are coded for IE 6 only.
I've used 3 different banks here, their websites can only be used in IE6: they use ActiveX plugins for "security" and when I try using them in IE7 or IE8 the browser crashes. Nearly everyones computer still uses IE6.
Also, people use pirated versions of windows XP with updates disabled, often not running the latest service pack.
They dont understand problems, when something comes up they just use a GHOST image of the system and restore it to default.
I've seen this happen sooooo many times (i work at a university, teaching programming)

It does not surprise me in the least that USB drives ship with a virus on them. The autorun thingy on windows is the stupidest/most dangerous feature I can think of, so it's usually the first thing I disable when I set up windows.

 

[Gman 101]

Solution: Get Windows 7

Autorun does not work unless done by disc media such as CDs and DVDs.

Simple.