Energizer USB Duo battery charger hides a Trojan

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...

And *none* of the users who own this device have *ever* run a virus scanner??

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

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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!

How do you know it calls *out* and doesn't just open 7777 and

Regardless, a virus scan would/should have noticed the payload.

Possibly but considering even basic home routers have nat these days it wouldn't be very effective. So pretty much it would do nothing.

Why? Unless it is a know virus it's unlikely to get picked up.

A virus scanner only detects the viruses that match a known signature, or which do something that it knows about. If the malware is stealthy enough it won't be detected.

In two years it remained hidden? No one ever ran TCPview?

No, but I ran Topview once...

Jeeze you're old :)

Most people did only run it once.