GPS systems are all the rage nowadays but you could be in for a surprise if you picked up a TomTom GPS device. TomTom International confirmed on Monday that some of its latest Go 910 devices have shipped with a virus preinstalled. The infected systems were all manufactured during a one-week period around October 2006, TomTom said in a statement posted to its Web site on Monday. The affected systems are running version 6.51 of the TomTom software.

The company didn’t say how it managed to install malware on its products, but it warned that infected versions of the Go would try to copy the malicious software to a PC when connected. TomTom rated the malware as “low risk” and said that many antivirus products detect it. A “small, isolated number” of systems are affected, TomTom said.

Infected Go 910s include Trojan horse and virus software that has been blocked by antivirus vendors since June 2006, said Roel Schouwenberg, a senior research engineer with Kaspersky Lab.

Source: PC World