Comments on: Virus-infected Creative Zen MP3 players found

Several thousand of the digital music players are thought to be affected in the Asia-Pacific region.

great marketing

Ha HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

[corelogik]

I couldn't agree more,...

BUWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Now THIS they should patent

Seriously, this is truly unique to their players! Patent this and no one else put put viruses on their portable players ever besides you!

:D

[Kamokazi]

Disgruntled Employee?

Or really poor QA? I would think/hope a reputable corporation like creative would include virus scanning in the QA process.

I think it is more likely a disgruntled employee placed it there intentionally.

Or...

the reality of living in a windows world....

[aabcdefghij987654321]

Not the first time this has happened

"Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by ignorance" -- Author unknown and I probably didn't quote it exactly either but you should understand the gist.

It seems this happens every time a new medium for carrying information from PC to PC is created. There were vendors (major companies) that shipped virus infected floppy disks that were supposed to install their product, later the same thing happened with CDs when that medium came along. That it's happened again with a new kind of device isn't so surprising.

[M C]

Not Creative's week...

First they get called on their transparent plan to use their patent approval to shill their products:

http://www.forbes.com/2005/08/31/creative-patent-switch-cx_dl_0831creative.html

Then this.

Hee hee.

[Mendz]

Tsk... tsk... tsk...

Calling QC and QA... Wake up!

[cjohn17]

More Holes Than a New Orleans Levee

What do you expect when the base OS it uses, I wonder who's, has
more holes than a New Orleans levee.

Actually, BWAAHAHAHAHAHHA - (toot, squeaker) -
LOLHAHAHAHAHA!!!

[Stating]

So They Have Sold 1.2 Trillion?

Who thinks up these stupid serial numbers? The poor customers have to read these ridiculous things over the phone. They have to read a number with no punctuation or anything -- just a series of numbers. How user-unfriendly.

"serial numbers between 1230528000001 and 1230533001680"

[Mendz]

Who ever said...

... that serial numbers should be user friendly? What do you want? Flowers and butterflies to go with that?

[Terry Murphy]

New marketing slogan...

Worms for sure!