[ Thanks to Bill
Nuxli for this link. ]
“Hewlett-Packard Japan Ltd. (HP Japan) distributed device
drivers without knowing a computer virus had infected its Web site
from Dec. 17-19, 2000. The virus routed through Hewlett-Packard
Australia Ltd.’s Linux server, which maintains software programs.
HP deploys a strict security management system worldwide, but a
small security hole in the system led to this occurrence.”
“The virus that attacked HP Japan is a known virus called
“W32/Funlove” (alias PE_FUNLOVE.4099). It broke into HP Japan’s Web
site that provides printer drivers and BIOS (Basic Input Output
System) for PC servers, and infected 51 programs of these files. HP
Japan started a download service for these files at noon on Dec.
17, 2000, and stopped the service at 3 p.m. on Dec. 19 after
receiving complaints from users.”
“Another reason was that the server in Australia was
Linux-based. “In a Linux environment, there is no software tool
that is capable of automatically checking for viruses on writing
files and, therefore, we could not prevent the virus from infecting
files,” an HP Japan official said.”