the virus already on the product before it leaves the factory floor?

[acroyear]

that's a new one on me (at least as far as tech goes. happens in the food industry with annoying regularity, of course...)

Olympus Stylus Tough camera carries malware infection | Graham Cluley's blog:

Olympus Japan has issued a warning to customers who have bought its Stylus Tough 6010 digital compact camera that it comes with an unexpected extra - a virus on its internal memory card.

The first thing to point out is that the camera itself is not at risk - the autorun worm being carried on its internal memory can not activate on the Stylus Tough camera, but can attempt to infect your Windows PC.

In other words, users are at risk of infecting their Windows computers with the autorun worm when they plug the device into their USB drive, a method of transmission effectively identical to the infected Samsung Wave smartphones we reported on last week.