New iPods could be infected with a Windows virus

by Chris Gilmer Oct 18th 2006

Going out to a store, and dropping up to $350 on a fresh new Apple iPod Video is supposed to be a happy moment. But what do you do when you discover that that precious iPod is carrying something deadly?

Apple has discovered that a small number of Video iPods that were available for purchase after September 12th 2006 could contain a virus. The virus called Windows RavMonE.exe only affects Windows computers. Only Video iPods are affected by this virus, and Apple has only had 25 reports to date. The good news is that any up to date anti-virus software will be able to remove it. Apple has also nicely provided a list of things to do to remove the virus.

Tags: apple, ipod, ravmone, video, virus

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Nikolai said 10:00AM on 10-18-2006

I don't know much about this, which will perhaps show, but I'd like to know if the virus is already on the iPod when it was sold first-hand? Does that make it Apple's fault? Does that raise any other questions about marketing Apple's OS? Virus-free, wouldn't that be great? This article also uses adjectives like nicely, precious, fresh and deadly to give us a biased account of what should be reported as just straight fact. I don't support either operating systems and would just like an explanation here. Think about the consequences.

Chris Gilmer said 10:16AM on 10-18-2006

Check out this freshly made Apple page, this will let you know how to get rid of the virus.

http://www.apple.com/support/windowsvirus/

Keeves said 12:21PM on 10-18-2006

I am actually astonished that Apple tries to blame this on Microsoft - "we are upset at Windows for not being more hardy against such viruses"!!! (taken from the Apple help page on the problem) It is clearly Apples fault (or supplier etc) for the virus being there, and to use this as an opportunity to have a digg at a rival OS for your mistake is hardly fair!!

Chris Pirillo said 6:41PM on 10-18-2006

http://blaugh.com/2006/10/18/iworm/

:)

Mysterius said 3:12AM on 10-19-2006

Doesn't make the dig any less low; they only have themselves to blame.

Joseph Villalobos said 11:21AM on 10-19-2006

Hmmm... seems kind of fishy to me! Looks like Apple is trying to infect Windows users so that they would switch! WTF!

RVC said 12:44PM on 10-19-2006

If this had been a Windows product, everyone would have killed it. But since it is Apple, lets just laugh it off.

digitalrift said 12:54AM on 10-20-2006

To be fair, though, the rest of that quote is: "and [we are] even more upset with ourselves for not catching it."

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