TomTom, makers of a popular (if over-advertised) GPS navigation device, have admitted to a UK security journalist that a number of TomTom GO 910 units shipped with two trojans pre-installed.

“It has come to our attention that a small, isolated number of TomTom GO 910’s, produced between September and November 2006, may be infected with a virus. The virus is qualified as low risk and can be removed safely with virus scanning software. Appropriate actions have been taken to make sure this is prevented from happening again in the future.”

Seriously, folks. Every single software distributor should have anti-virus installed and updated on every single machine, as a matter of standard policy. The bad PR, combined with the cost of returns and helpdesk calls, costs way more than corporate anti-virus solutions.

This entry was posted on Sunday, January 28th, 2007 at 10:36 pm by Peter Hesse and is filed under software. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.