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iPods Come Complete With Windows Virus
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."
Was is outsourced at McDonald's?
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Libertarians somehow believe that private businesses should be stronger than governments but weaker than individuals.
Infected is right. These iPods are Apple's smallpox blankets to Microsoft's American Indians.
Wait'll the next batch of MS Office 200x for Mac comes out, and the splash screens are all horse porn or goatse
But then they'd get sued by security vendors for ruining thier market.
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The FDA is reporting that some of Apple's produce shipped after September 12th as having the E. coli bacteria. In Apple's announcement they take a swipe at Intelligent Design, "As you might imagine, we are upset at God for not making human beings more hardy against such bacteria and viruses, and even more upset with ourselves for not catching it."
That's like MacDonald's importing meat infected with Mad Cow Diease, then blaming the FDA for not catching it.
Bad analogy. It's like McDonald's (no a) selling burgers infected with MCD, and then blaming the humans for being vulnerable to it. Except that unlike humans in the real world (who are all susceptible to MCD), the humans in this crazy analogy universe have a choice between different bodies: one that's not only vulnerable to MCD, but every other disease out there, and has to be constantly immunized against them, and even then performs terribly, stops breathing and loses conscienceness occasionally, and is ugly to boot; and a few other bodies that are naturally immune to every known disease, are stronger and live much longer, don't need sleep, and are very attractive. Only the idiots who chose the ugly, disease-infested bodies get MCD so McDonald's justifiably tries to assign them some of the blame for making a bad choice.
Especially not when you live here...
So now Apple needs a commercial where the Mac guy is picking up biohazardous waste while wearing a virus-proof bunny suit and "accidentally" spilling it on the PC guy who's just laying there in his beach clothes enjoying himself.
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They would use Macs but they are too expensive. ;)
Yes except you need to READ the readme files for them to be an issue.
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Next PC vs Mac commercial, the Apple version:
PC is wearing a "boy in the plastic bubble" suit, wandering around with a bottle of Formula 409, obsessively wiping down everything he sees. Mac casually strolls up from behind and taps PC on the shoulder of his bubble suit. PC shrieks and starts spraying and wiping the suit. Mac asks what's up, PC starts babbling "Viruses...viruses are everywhere. Anything I touch might kill me. Never clean enough...never...clean...enough". Mac sadly shakes his head and wanders off.
Next PC vs Mac commercial, the Microsoft version:
Mac walks over to PC and offers to let PC listen to Mac's iPod. PC puts on the headset, starts tapping his feet and snapping his fingers, then suddenly flops onto his back, goes into convulsions, and dies. Mac slinks off the stage, looking embarassed and guilty. James Earl Jones voiceover grimly intones "iPods kill - buy a Zune".
A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.
The reason the MAC is safer on a production line is that viruses usually only target computers...
Microsoft should ship each Zune with a Mac virus.
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rediculous.
ITs great. Apple blames Windows for the Virus...but who put it on th ipod?
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Less expensive, maybe a little bit, but a Yugo is less expensive than a Ferrari too! Just look at how much more you get: FireWire! Magnetic power cords! Genius bars! And isn't it worth a few more bucks to make your factory snappier?
Besides, there are plenty of factory applications for Mac! There's AssemblyLine...
Super AssemblyLine...
*whisper* Photoshop...
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They would have, but the developers complained about having to use the IPod's scroll wheel to type all of their code.
For years my systems have been virus free. Now I plug in my NEW Ipod and I looked into the file system on it and yup there is the virus and yup it has installed itself on one of the non development boxes. Now im forced to check the other boxes to see if damage has been done. It looks like a host of multiple visrses took over the box i hooked up to on the first night when i installed i-tunes and transfered over my old IPod files.
Way to go apple
Who do I send the bill for the clean up to ? Please post it in this thread I'll be happy to send the serial number of my ipod to you for proof.
I once worked on a product, where we had a file on disk called IGNORE.ME. I can't for the life of me remember why.
No no no, it's like McDonald's giving out USB devices with a trojan on them and... wait a second.
Odds are that more people read it than would have read a READ.ME file in the same folder.
Yeah, it's a real shame that Microsoft's Zune Player is windows-only.
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I know iTunes is a crappy application (on Windows), but I don't know if I'd go so far as to call it a virus...
Personally, I think the main suspect would be a platypus in a devil suit. Someone like that is _bound_ to be up to no good....