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From: Don McKenzie on 10 Mar 2010 17:46
Energizer USB Duo battery charger hides a Trojan
March 9, 2010 by Lin Edwards

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Energizer Duo USB battery charger has been hiding a
backdoor Trojan in its software that affects computers using Windows.
According to Symantec the Trojan has probably been there since 10th May
2007.

Energizer has now taken the software for the model CHUSB charger off the
market and removed the site from which it could be downloaded, and the
company is asking customers who downloaded the Windows version to
uninstall it. There are easy steps to fight the Trojan in affected
machines, and Macintosh users are not affected.

http://www.physorg.com/news187335556.html

Cheers Don...


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From: D Yuniskis on 10 Mar 2010 18:01
Don McKenzie wrote:
> Energizer USB Duo battery charger hides a Trojan
> March 9, 2010 by Lin Edwards
>
> (PhysOrg.com) -- The Energizer Duo USB battery charger has been hiding a
> backdoor Trojan in its software that affects computers using Windows.
> According to Symantec the Trojan has probably been there since 10th May
> 2007.
>
> Energizer has now taken the software for the model CHUSB charger off the
> market and removed the site from which it could be downloaded, and the
> company is asking customers who downloaded the Windows version to
> uninstall it. There are easy steps to fight the Trojan in affected
> machines, and Macintosh users are not affected.
>
> http://www.physorg.com/news187335556.html

And *none* of the users who own this device have *ever* run
a virus scanner??
From: Don McKenzie on 10 Mar 2010 17:57
D Yuniskis wrote:
> Don McKenzie wrote:
>> Energizer USB Duo battery charger hides a Trojan
>> March 9, 2010 by Lin Edwards
>>
>> (PhysOrg.com) -- The Energizer Duo USB battery charger has been hiding
>> a backdoor Trojan in its software that affects computers using
>> Windows. According to Symantec the Trojan has probably been there
>> since 10th May 2007.
>>
>> Energizer has now taken the software for the model CHUSB charger off
>> the market and removed the site from which it could be downloaded, and
>> the company is asking customers who downloaded the Windows version to
>> uninstall it. There are easy steps to fight the Trojan in affected
>> machines, and Macintosh users are not affected.
>>
>> http://www.physorg.com/news187335556.html
>
> And *none* of the users who own this device have *ever* run
> a virus scanner??

Makes you wonder, if Symantec said the Trojan has probably been there
since 10th May 2007, then why one of those customers that run virus
scanners, didn't report it to Energizer when they found it.

And if they did, why something wasn't done about it in 2007.

I saw them on the shelf recently and thought, I must get one of those.
Much better than carrying an ac charger around with my netbook gear.

Cheers Don...





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From: Jon on 10 Mar 2010 18:08

"Don McKenzie" <5V(a)2.5A> wrote in message
news:7vqme7FgokU1(a)mid.individual.net...
>D Yuniskis wrote:
>> Don McKenzie wrote:
>>> Energizer USB Duo battery charger hides a Trojan
>>> March 9, 2010 by Lin Edwards
>>>
>>> (PhysOrg.com) -- The Energizer Duo USB battery charger has been hiding a
>>> backdoor Trojan in its software that affects computers using Windows.
>>> According to Symantec the Trojan has probably been there since 10th May
>>> 2007.
>>>
>>> Energizer has now taken the software for the model CHUSB charger off the
>>> market and removed the site from which it could be downloaded, and the
>>> company is asking customers who downloaded the Windows version to
>>> uninstall it. There are easy steps to fight the Trojan in affected
>>> machines, and Macintosh users are not affected.
>>>
>>> http://www.physorg.com/news187335556.html
>>
>> And *none* of the users who own this device have *ever* run
>> a virus scanner??
>
> Makes you wonder, if Symantec said the Trojan has probably been there
> since 10th May 2007, then why one of those customers that run virus
> scanners, didn't report it to Energizer when they found it.
>
> And if they did, why something wasn't done about it in 2007.
>
> I saw them on the shelf recently and thought, I must get one of those.
> Much better than carrying an ac charger around with my netbook gear.
>
> Cheers Don...


Energizer hasn't said it but I'm reasonably sure we can thank China.



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From: AZ Nomad on 10 Mar 2010 18:17
On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:57:04 +1100, Don McKenzie <5V(a)2.5A> wrote:
>D Yuniskis wrote:
>> Don McKenzie wrote:
>>> Energizer USB Duo battery charger hides a Trojan
>>> March 9, 2010 by Lin Edwards
>>>
>>> (PhysOrg.com) -- The Energizer Duo USB battery charger has been hiding
>>> a backdoor Trojan in its software that affects computers using
>>> Windows. According to Symantec the Trojan has probably been there
>>> since 10th May 2007.
>>>
>>> Energizer has now taken the software for the model CHUSB charger off
>>> the market and removed the site from which it could be downloaded, and
>>> the company is asking customers who downloaded the Windows version to
>>> uninstall it. There are easy steps to fight the Trojan in affected
>>> machines, and Macintosh users are not affected.
>>>
>>> http://www.physorg.com/news187335556.html
>>
>> And *none* of the users who own this device have *ever* run
>> a virus scanner??

>Makes you wonder, if Symantec said the Trojan has probably been there
>since 10th May 2007, then why one of those customers that run virus
>scanners, didn't report it to Energizer when they found it.

>And if they did, why something wasn't done about it in 2007.

>I saw them on the shelf recently and thought, I must get one of those.
>Much better than carrying an ac charger around with my netbook gear.

Yeah. I was just thinking the other day: what can I do in addition
to what I'm doing now to burn out those 500ma usb ports. Maybe I can
look around for a USB toaster oven. Until I find one of those, the
energizer battery charger is perfect!





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