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My guess is that whoever made the installer had his computer infected. Not all companies have strict rules about what can be on the computer (or developers choo
by kaitnieks 17y ago
My guess is that whoever made the installer had his computer infected. Not all companies have strict rules about what can be on the computer (or developers choose to not follow them and find ways around their enforcements) and this can be one of the downsides. I can't guess whether they virus-scanned the installation or not because it's quite possible that the trojan was new and not being picked up by scanner when they released the charger.
- kaitnieks 17y agoOk, I found this analysis by Symantec which makes the whole thing less naive than I originally thought: http://www.symantec.com/connect/fr/blogs/trojan-found-usb-battery-charger-software http://www.symantec.com/connect/fr/blogs/trojan-found-usb-ba...
- sh1mmer 17y agoThey indicate a Liu Hong seems to have authored the install package. No indication if he was a Energizer employee or not.