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iPods Come Complete With Windows Virus

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the nyah-nyah dept.

kaufmanmoore writes "Cnet is reporting that some video Ipods made after September 12th have the RavMonE virus loaded onto it. In Apple's announcement they take a swipe at Windows security and encourage Windows users to install anti virus applications."

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  1. Re:Also shows... by Ucklak · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Or Microsoft should just fix their OS so that the file is just a dangerous as a README.txt file.

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  2. Re:Uhh, What? by NosTROLLdamus · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    That's the best analogy I've ever heard on slashdot.

  3. Its a trap! by Nushio · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I bet the newest "security update" from Windows automatically adds the virus into the iPod, thus creating the illusion that "iPods have virus, Zunes do not"....

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  4. Article says, the usual. Avoid Like Plague. by twitter · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Apple blames Windows for the Virus...but who put it on th ipod?

    Some windoze user at the factory, of course. Isn't that the normal way W32 filth propagates? If you had read the article, you would have seen:

    Joswiak said it was traced to a particular Windows machine in the manufacturing lines of a contract manufacturer that builds the iPods for Apple.

    So, unless Apple is lying to cover up, this was not some targeted attack but just the usual Windoze born propagation. M$ is like a plague, and it should avoided as such. Apple should be embarrassing to admit needing it in any part of the process outside developing W32 iTunes. The only way to keep W32 infestations away is to never use it or let a M$ machine touch a filesystem of yours that it can read.

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  5. Re:nah, this has happened before by Sillygates · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Maybe the macs that are loading the firmware on these ipods were *compromised*

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  6. Re:Also shows... by pimpimpim · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    I think it makes sense. They produce such high bulks of devices at pretty low prices that it might be more economical to skip time-intensive testing steps and just trade-in defective devices after sales.

    That said, their reaction is pretty meager. OS X viruses and linux viruses exist as well, so what would they say if it would be loaded with one of those? An iPod is an official apple product that is mostly bought directly from apple, whatever crap is on it is their responsibility only.

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  7. not really secure..... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    while not a virus, how about the zip expoit in Safari.

    Auto run any code from viewing a website.

    That sounds pretty bad to me.

    Just becuase nobody bothered to turn it into a virus via applescript does not mena that macs are secure, simply obscure in the eyes of the botnet masters.

  8. Re:Article says, the usual. Avoid Like Plague. by twitter · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Way to go twitter, nothing like an opportunity to do your "M$ windoze" routine. Are they letting you post again after all your troll and flamebait moderations? And why are you back on it again?

    Someone blamed Apple for the M$ virus ecology, why not read the article and see that it had nothing to do with anything other than Genuine M$ software?

    Of course, I'm not going to let a loser like you run me off with insults or mod bombs. Now go fuck yourself.

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