Magic Androids have malware pre-installed

Vodafone stands accused of distributing some HTC phones with malware pre-installed on them. An HTC Magic phone, running the Google Android mobile operating system, was found by a researcher at Panda Security to be pre-loaded with the Mariposa bot client. Vodafone distributes this phone to its userbase in some European countries and it seems affordable as you can get it for 0€ or 1€ under certain conditions. Panda reports that when the researcher "plugged...