After three pieces of malware, including a variant of the AutoRun worm, were found on a brand new Windows XP netbook, consumers are being warned to run security scans before connecting to the Internet.
When Kaspersky [Labs] developers installed their recently-released Security for Ultra Portables on an M&A Companion Touch netbook purchased for testing, “they thought something strange was going on,” said Roel Schouwenberg, a senior antivirus researcher with the Moscow-based firm. Schouwenberg scanned the machine — a $499 netbook designed for the school market — and found three pieces of malware.
One of them was a variant of the AutoRun worm, which according to a recent Computerworld posting, spreads via infected USB flash drives.
Tags: autorun worm, malware, netbook
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I always prefer to use Kasperky over Avast or McAfee. Kaspersky is much better in detecting new viruses and it does not consume too much resources on your dektop PC.;`;