Adware slips between pages of e-book

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| The infection appears to be the imgInSOY worm, which copies itself between
| removable media and uses autorun.inf to infect any Windows system it comes
| across. In addition to copying itself onto any more removable devices the
| worm operates as adware.
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| The Iliad is a Linux-based e-ink device which synchronises with a desktop PC
| to download books or other documents the user wants to read, as well as
| uploading sketches or annotations the user has made to existing documents.
| But when connected over USB the device also appears as a removable drive, and
| that's when the infection can occur.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/31/iliad_adware/

The Iliad runs Linux? How come nobody covered this stuff? Linux is probably
just assumed for such devices.

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