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posted on 08 April 2008 12:03

HP has shipped Flash Floppy drives to ProLiant customers infected with virus malware.

The USB Floppy Drive Key is for ProLiant servers that do not include a floppy drive as a standard component or may not offer a floppy drive as an option. It provides functionality enabling users to perform tasks that were previously accomplished using a floppy drive. The HP USB Floppy Drive Key is a logical replacement for the floppy drive because it is small and easy to transport, supports various capacities, and does not require a separate driver under the operating system.

On Thursday last week HP revealed it had discovered the devices were contaminated with two worms; W32.Fakerecy and W32.SillyFDC, which spread by copying themselves to removable and/or mapped drives plugged into the same server.

The source of the infection in the HP supply chain is not known. Most virus scanners pick up the infestation and can clean it. HP is not recalling the drives.

^{[Paul Roberts, news editor.]}