Olympus Cameras Sold With Virus In Built-In Memory

The Japanese division of Olympus issued a warning for owners of digital cameras Stylus Tough 6010 (in Russia went on sale in July 2009 under the name µ TOUGH-6010 ). An autorun virus was found in the built-in flash memory of this camera, which runs when connected via a USB port under Windows. The virus infects the OS, and then other USB-carriers.

According to company estimates, 1700 cameras were infected. You can check the serial number of your camera for infection through the Japanese-language widget on the official website. Olympus deeply apologizes and promises to strengthen quality control on the assembly line in the future.

This is not the first time that gadgets are sold bundled with viruses. Just last week, a boot virus was detected on the flash cards of the Samsung Wave phone , and even earlier - on TomTom car navigators (2007) and Apple Video iPod (2006). In early 2010, IBM accidentally distributed USB sticks with the virus to a computer security conference.

via Graham Cluley's blog