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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."
I never stated that either. My point was that he can't complain about viruses on Windows computers now that he's helped spreading it. Excuse me for not being clear enough.
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"Simply because MS can't do anything like this back to Apple."
Sure they can. Ship a version of MS Word with a virus embedded that targets Macs (yes they do exist, though the small market share makes them much less common). And if they are willing to bring back the Mac Internet Explorer, they can 'accidentally' leave open a security flaw that allows even more viruses in.
I think MS wins hands down as one of Apple's main selling points is that fewer viruses are written for Macs than for Windows. But the more stories that break that include the words "Apple" and "Virus" in the headline, fewer people will believe that and just stick with Windows (yes we can hold out hope that they will move to Linux, but I wouldn't bet on it).
Mathematics is made of 50 percent formulas, 50 percent proofs, and 50 percent imagination.
I heard (from a reliable source inside Apple) that the virus was preinstalled from the disk manufacturer when they formatted the drives. *shudder* You can see where this can go.
There is no such thing as autorun on OS X. If you really have managed to get a script to run automatically as soon as the volume that contains it is mounted, you are exploting a bug somewhere. Please file a bug report.
Not one that's ISO 9000 certified you havn't. Apple has never done the necessary paperwork to get Macs into this market. They don't care about this market. Now they've been bitten on the ass by this stance. That's the irony, aint it sweet.
How we know is more important than what we know.
The rules were made up by those lovely people at the International Standards Organisation. Apple has never gone through the process to get Macs certified as ISO 9000 approved manufacturing components. They focus on the home and small office market, they don't care about this stuff.
How we know is more important than what we know.
I'm sorry, you are absolutely correct. I had this set up for so long I forgot what I did: Folder Actions. My face is red!
I still think the thinly-veiled insult is uncalled for when Apple directly creates a security risk.
Karma: Incomprehensible (Mostly affected by posting at +5, reading at -1, and metamoderating everything unfair.)
That's not how manufacturing works at all in the real world. Most initialisation of such devices is done using Windows machines.
However, they shouldn't be writing files to a filesystem to initialise the devices, they should be writing a version-controlled quality-controlled filesystem itself. And there's no point blaming the Chinese contractor, I'm sure they were just following the Apple procedure, sloppy as it is.
Also FatPhil on SoylentNews, id 863
I thought the same thing. Guess what happened when I first plugged in my SanDisk micro thumb drive? Shit got installed on my computer, that I had to specifically uninstall and then format the thumb drive (Conveniently available from the menu it installed, but still).
NOTHING in the manual about "Oh yeah, if you plug this in to a windows PC we're running shit without telling you."
I no longer trust "blank" media, but what can one do? Plug the hard drive in to a windows machine and format it? Woops, already fucked your computer over, since Windows will helpfully immediately run and install anything on the disk. This is a failure of Windows with autorun being on by default.
Pisses me off too. That's why I use TweakUI on every install of Windows I have to use and I disable AutoPlay completely. Optical discs, removable media, anything.
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