August 28, 2005

Virus stops shipment of Creative Zen Neeon

by Dhiram Shah

Creative has announced that a certain batch of Zen Neeon of 5GB HDD has the “W32.Wullik.B@mm” virus. The W32.Wullik.B@mm infects Windows based PC’s and sends emails to the addresses registered in Outlook. About 1 % of the total Zen Neeon’s shipped to Japan in July are beleived to be infected around 100 units. Shipping of the Neeon is stopped and Creative is recalling the so called infected units. The Neeon is the latest MP3 player from Creative weighing around 75 grams and size of 47 x 16 x 80 mm. Via Creative Japan