Remember The Horror: Neeon Ships With Virus

Back in 2005, Creative made a press release admitting a production mistake that caused 3,700 of the company’s Zen Neeon MP3 players that shipped from a company factory in late July to contain a Windows worm.

The worm was W32.Wullik.B, a mass-mailing worm that first appeared in November, 2003, and makes copies of itself in random locations on machines it infects. It is programmed to move to new locations when Windows Explorer browses the folder that it is in, and can be spread to floppy disks and shared network drives.

As a patch-up measure, Creative asked customers who bought the Zen Neeon 5GB players with serial numbers between M1PF1230528000001M and M1PF1230533001680Q to disinfect the systems using anti-virus software, or by manually deleting the worm file from the players.