Hatorade, despite what your mother told you, is not a part of a healthy breakfast, even when it's washing down a McGriddle sandwich. Some stories do require a tall glass of the stuff though.
McDonalds Japan and Coca Cola threw a contest where winners would receive a Mickey D's flash player preloaded with 10 songs. Much like their quarter pounder with cheese, a nasty sensation followed, since the players included the QQPass spyware trojan. It's a typically nasty little bug that uploads your username and passwords from your Windows PC. Some reports claim that the trojan would take effect as soon as the flash player was plugged in, though this has been disputed.
It's not as bad as the Sony fiasco, when they were installing CD "copy protection" that actually functioned as a rootkit to make computers susceptible to hacking, but the golden arches have lost a little luster and a smidge of honor. They've set up a hotline to help the hapless computer users and issued replacement players which, we can only hope, are disease free.
For some related Apple news, including a support page that confirms they're a group of obnoxiously superior pricks, hit the link.

Apparently Apple has been shipping video iPods with a Windows virus on them. It affects less than 1% of the players shipped after September 12th. It's a fairly benign virus, but perhaps more unforgivable is this quote from Apple:
"As you might imagine, we are upset at Windows for not being more hardy against such viruses, and even more upset with ourselves for not catching it."
Nicely apologetic, in a fatuous and smug sort of way. You ship out iPods with a virus on them, and then use the opportunity to take a swipe at Microsoft. I understand when you have just 5% of the US computer market, you need to resort to effective PR campaigns, but can you please limit the attacks to your amusing Mac and PC ads and just issue mea culpas without pinning your mistakes on others?