Some Eee Box PCs shipped with virus

The Japanese distributor for Asus has found that a virus has been shipped with the company’s new Eee Box PCs. The virus, called recycled.exe, is found on the D: drive of the new low cost desktop PC, which launched last week. When opened, it copies itself to the C: drive and any removable storage device attached to the PC and disables any anti-virus programs it finds.

It also accesses the users address book and sends itself to everyone in it, visits web pages without the user knowing, disables processes, the Task Manager, the Windows Registry Editor and File Protection system, modifies Windows Security Policies, sends information back to its host (which is presumably a botnet) and more.