Eee ships with malware
This week, Asus confirmed that some of the Asus Eee Boxes have accidentally been shipped with a piece of Windows-based malware pre-installed. The Asus Eee Box is the company's new slimline desktop PC, in the style of the Mac Mini that Apple came out with a few years ago.
“It's not clear at the moment whether all Asus Eee devices are affected or just a percentage. If it's all, then clearly the image that Asus is putting onto their hard drives has not been properly audited - but if only some are infected then it's possible that this was an issue introduced at quality control,” explains Brett Myroff, CEO of regional Sophos distributor, Sophos SA.
He says it is also possible that a percentage of Asus Eee Boxes were tested on the conveyor belt for quality control reasons, using an infected USB stick.
