TomTom GPS systems infected with a virus

If you’ve picked up a TomTom Global Positioning System device over the past few months, you may have bought more than you bargained for, PC World reports.

TomTom International has confirmed 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. 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 will try to copy the malicious software to a PC when connected.

TomTom isn’t the first company to make this kind of mistake. Apple accidentally shipped malware with some of its iPods last October, for example.