Vodafon HTC Magic Confirmed to Carry Malware

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If you thought getting a HTC Magic for free with Vodafone in Europe (on a contract, of course) was sweet, today we’re hearing that the deal may not be as good as it may sound as security software company Panda made a statement yesterday that the Android smartphone is actually distributing malware.

Someone working at Panda Research got a brand new Vodafone HTC Magic and when trying to hook it up to a computer via USB, the Panda Cloud Antivirus software went crazy. From what they are telling, both the autorun.inf and autorun.exe contain malicious code that the company has identified as a Mariposa bot client capable to infect all computers that dealt with it.

How is that affecting you? Well, there can be major repercussions as the malware could log all of your private data – phone calls, text messages, web passwords and browsing data, “phoning” everything “home”.

On top of that, Panda Research are saying that the Mariposa bot client is not the only thing you should be afraid of, as the Vodafone HTC Magic handset is also supposedly shipping with Confiker and a Lineage password stealing malware.

Vodafone, HTC, that’s not fun guys!