Malware found on brand new Windows netbook

May 22, 2009, 21:32 (6 Talkback[s])

"When Kaspersky developers installed their recently-released Security for Ultra Portables on an M&A Companion Touch netbook purchased for testing, "they thought something strange was going on," said Roel Schouwenberg, a senior antivirus researcher with the Moscow-based firm. Microsoft's Windows XP is considered by many users as the ideal operating system for small form nearly bare bones portable computers known as netbooks."

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