[DementedTech]

I picked up 1 of the 4 GB 3rd Gen Mp4 players hsingfashion had listed on eBay, it was for a young cousin you tends to loose things. Price was around 17, with 18 s/h (I figured hes padding the shipping cost to cheat seller fees) Feedbacks 99.2% nothing bad about these players.

The player comes in a simple non-padded (not bubble wrap) mylar bag, shipped standard post (Shipping costs about 3 bucks.) The players packed in a retail type box with a layer of shrink wrap over it. I opened it, tested the player, as soon as I plugged it into a usb port it attempted to run an autoloader that in turn was going to load the worm ravmon.exe on my system (Nothing like a virus to give you that value added feeling.)

Having removed that I had a look at the drive, the size struck me as odd, it was reporting it was a 4.25 GB drive. More value added fun I expected. So I formated the drive (never hurts to be safe) and couldn't help but notice the drive size had dropped to 955 MB (1 GB drive formated.)

I wrote the seller who did not seem amazed, and told me to format the drive. (Always nice to know that detailed report you sent was read.) So I wrote back using small words and asked for a full refund including shipping. Got the please return the player note as expected, and was told to have tracking on the package as its my RMA number, and assured me they would check with the supplier on this. I do not know who hacked it, it could be that he got them this way.

So the player has been returned and I wait on the next step. Thought I should post a warning about it, see if anyone else has this happen.