Thursday 18 March 2010

Energizer Trojan keeps going

A Trojan has been found in software associated with a USB battery recharger made by Energizer. The Energizer Duo Charger charges batteries, "via a USB port or AC wall-outlet" and its progress can be monitored by software that is downloaded from the manufacturer's website during installation. According to a report on The Register this software contains a Trojan.

Energizer has taken the model off sale and claims to be investigating further into the matter.

US-CERT has published some technical information that notes how the standard Windows firewall will protect systems, assuming that the user does not click the Unblock button when prompted.

2 comments:

  1. Totally off subject, but can you tell me a little more about The Designer's Desktop Manual? I'm operating with CS3 still on a MacBook Pro. Would the older version be applicable for me? Thanks.

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  2. Yes, I would say so. There's a lot of useful stuff in there that works with any recent version of Adobe's creative software. There are also a lot of techniques covered that you can use with different software.

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