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AVG Update Breaks iTunes
nate_in_ME writes "After getting a positive from the AVG virus detector while playing music on iTunes just a few minutes ago, I did a bit of research. It appears that AVG has recently pushed an update to the virus definitions that flags every iPod/iTunes related file as being infected with the 'Small.BOG' trojan. Interestingly enough, AVG does not have any information on this particular virus in their virus encyclopedia. Discussion on the Apple forum is up to 4 pages and climbing. One user there had an interesting thought: 'Maybe Palm has some shares in AVG...MUAHAAAA!!' (on page 3)."
A/V company in "mistake" shock, Film at 11. There have been many instances of false positives from antivirus software.
Although in this case, it's not a false positive. iTunes really is a virus, along with all Apple products. I don't think I'm infected. But I love Apple products and must buy more of them. Mmm, that iPhone certainly looks like a great deal. Oh yeah, I'd certainly sell my soul to buy one of those. And the new MacBook, gotta have it. Powered by BSD you know, bit like Linux except not free, in fact quite expensive. Get a Mac, get a Mac, get a Mac.
The tao of democracy: the government you can vote for is not the real government.
If you do just want to drag and drop, tell iTunes that you want to manage the music on your iPod manually. You'll still have to use iTunes, but you'll be able to drag stuff on and off the device.
Oh, so that's all I need to do to be able to copy music off of an iPod? Well, that's intuitive, huh?
Except, of course, that DOESN'T ACTUALLY WORK THAT WAY.
All that does is make a special playlist that iTunes copies to the iPod. You still have to copy music into iTunes, then add it to that special playlist, then sync the iPod and make yet another copy.
And, of course, since you're now doing it manually, you lose all your other playlists, meaning all your music is in one giant unsearchable lump. Making that feature COMPLETELY WORTHLESS.
Or maybe you're half right and it's both. Maybe someone submitted bad info on purpose cuz they hate Apple with a passion (come on, you know they're out there!) and AVG rushed the definitions into an update, just kinda taking their word for it.
Google's Super Secret Search Algorithm: SELECT @search_results FROM internet WHERE @search_results = 'good'
Oh, good.
So we still get yet another weird player-specific database to try to keep sync'd with reality.
Hooray, and stuff.
Kid-proof tablet..
Umm, yeah -- because people who like to shop and buy from the iTunes music store have SUCH a vastly superior experience when they use other music players/indexers for Windows, right?