Not really denouncing Asus, but damn, those guys REALLY need to get their shit together.

I’ve been hearing reports about internal documents ending up on driver CD’s and viruses on motherboard install CD’s and whatnot. This is not the first time this has happened.

Posted at 1:35 pm on Oct 9th, 2008 by henk

I love asus, except when one of their products breaks.

That was the -worst- customer service experience i’ve ever had.

Posted at 1:56 pm on Oct 9th, 2008 by dirk

yet another reason that autorun is the stupidest idea ever. Turn it off, then use right-click -> open to open drives. Stupid crap.

(I use autorun.inf to put an icon on my drives, I wonder if this would overwrite that and give me a big clue if I got this virus.)

Posted at 2:39 pm on Oct 9th, 2008 by nubie

Move-on-boot will also get rid of it, that program is awesome.

Posted at 2:54 pm on Oct 9th, 2008 by epicelite

Just use this disk, fixes all windows problems, virus, malware, the lot, also will make eee box run faster…

http://tinyurl.com/2cm3o5

Posted at 3:02 pm on Oct 9th, 2008 by Chris

Argh. Chris beat me to it…

Posted at 3:21 pm on Oct 9th, 2008 by D

So who actually provides the software for ASUS. I mean is it some sort of packaged install license from MS, or is it an internal division that format’s the Eee Box?

Posted at 4:05 pm on Oct 9th, 2008 by David

@ chris,

I just got my eee 1000h, and with the small screen, this is much better:

http://www.ubuntu-eee.com

it’s meant for the small screen, but the desktop has the same hardware, so everything would work right away.

ps, it does not make it run faster, although it is nice when XP decides to randomly break itself…..again….

Posted at 4:26 pm on Oct 9th, 2008 by _Matt

I for one don’t really want a touch screen Eee. I thought I sorta did when the Eee first came out and there didn’t seem to be much alternative, but now I have a Fujitsu U810. Smaller, faster than the first Eees, better battery life, a touch screen that flips to turn it into a tablet PC…

Okay, this is a bit off topic, but more people who have fallen for the Eee hysteria should look into the Fujitsu.

Posted at 5:04 pm on Oct 9th, 2008 by Jax184

personally I don’t install software removal tools that identify themselves as malicious :)

Posted at 5:32 pm on Oct 9th, 2008 by Wwhat

@Jax184 comparing the first eee, and the u810 is an unfair comparison, eee costed £220 and the u810 costs 712, so it should be better

Posted at 8:25 pm on Oct 9th, 2008 by markp1989

@ everyone…

I think the virus myeclass.*.* could be the one inside that PC!

Posted at 9:24 pm on Oct 9th, 2008 by Jan Duarte

i’ll bet if someone took a serious look at how asus employees are being treated, it might explain a few things. there really is no other explanation, the level of incompetence required for this kind of thing to occur over and over again is well, hard to imagine.

Posted at 10:24 pm on Oct 9th, 2008 by amk

lol @ chris

Good one!

Posted at 5:13 am on Oct 10th, 2008 by strider_mt2k

@to all

What happens as a result of out-sourcing. The right hand does not know what the left hand is doing but both want to market on time to grab attention from investors.

@chris

Does that Ubuntu setup have touchscreen? For max speed, download the full kernel source 2.6.25.5. Next copy the config file in the boot directory into the /usr/src directory pointing to the 2.6.25.5. Rename config file to .config. to a make xconfig and then tell the kernel your exact pc model…disable smp if you running single core. And most inmportant…there is some kind of timer setting that really should be set for 1,000hz. Rebuild kernel and modules. You have speed and power.

Posted at 6:50 am on Oct 10th, 2008 by Kaos

I don’t know why the hell anyone would want a touch screen PC. I’ve spent the last 10+ years trying to keep people from touching the goddamn screen, why are companies trying to undermine all of that work?

Posted at 7:47 am on Oct 10th, 2008 by vbrtrmn

@vbrtrmn

ATT got hit big time with this touchscreen scam. They roughly have ten of thousand of the new HP touchscreen notebooks. The users using them are sales people trying to show client ads before production. All the complaints came from the small screen with the little tiny buttons. Worse of all, they are running Oracle databases which are constantly updating to run on those sorry hard drives. Did I mention they run Vista? Israel Amdocs (spys) won the bid to implement that crap.

Posted at 8:44 am on Oct 10th, 2008 by Kaos

you can also use the folder options panel to simply bypass that autorun thing..no double clicking that would call those viruses..

Posted at 7:14 am on Oct 11th, 2008 by ecruliana

I have a PC game CD, came out early 90’s that has the Garcia virus on it. It is worth almost $5k USD to collectors. Can you imagine how much a PC preloaded with a virus would be worth in 10 years. I’d say 1/4 million USD, easy. Especially if it’s never taken out of the box, except to be scanned.

Posted at 4:47 am on Oct 12th, 2008 by babyhewy

@ BABY

whats the Garcia virus?

and why the hell would someone bye a Virus….

hell if you want me to i sell all my virused

( assumeing i wont have them once you buy them )

XD
yay aids!

Posted at 11:01 pm on Oct 23rd, 2008 by DJ

@ BABY

whats the Garcia virus?

and why the hell would someone bye a Virus….

hell if you want me to i sell all my virused

( assumeing i wont have them once you buy them )

When i google “what is the Garcia virus ” i get nothing good…. all fake and not really what im looking for… mind explain

Posted at 11:04 pm on Oct 23rd, 2008 by DJ

i wana fuck your mother……………,

Posted at 3:30 am on Feb 23rd, 2009 by boby