HP flash-floppy USB drives sold with virus
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008You can’t trust anybody. HP admits that that it has been selling virus-infected USB drives. PC World reports:
Hewlett-Packard has been selling USB-based hybrid flash-floppy drives that were pre-infected with malware, the company said last week in a security bulletin.
Dubbed “HP USB Floppy Drive Key,” the device is a combination flash drive and compact floppy drive, and is designed to work with various models of HP’s ProLiant Server line. HP sells two versions of the drive, one with 256MB of flash capacity, the other with 1GB of storage space.
Since the drives are intended for servers, most home users are not affected. Nonetheless, it gives me pause to think that a company like HP could let this happen.