Recently computer manufacturer Lenovo (an IBM company) pulled a download off of its website that was infected with a Trojan. According to Ryan Naraine’s (security evangelist at Kaspersky Lab) post on ZDNet…

Computer maker Lenovo is shipping a malware-infected software package to Windows XP users, according to warning from anti-virus researchers at Microsoft.

Its unusual, but not unheard of, for a computer manufacturer to accidentally distribute software that’s infected with malware. Some years ago a computer manufacturer was shipping brand new computers pre-infected before they caught it. I’d hate to have been a customer service rep at that company explaining to people why their brand new computer was already infected when it was not yet even connected to the Internet!

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