AplusWebMaster
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FYI…
- http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/ar…6.html#00000999
October 18, 2006
"First McDonald's* and now Apple. Apple Support has a very interesting notice available today. It seems that some of the iPod (video) units available for purchase from September 12th contain the RavMonE.exe virus. More details are available from: http://www.apple.com/support/windowsvirus/ . Also of interest is Apple's framing of this support issue. Note that the notice is located in a sub-folder named "WindowsVirus" rather than "virus". In fact, the words "Windows Virus" appear eight times while the actual name of the virus - RavMonE.exe - is mentioned only twice. Let's be clear, some Apple iPods have shipped with a virus that affects mass storage devices. So it might not be a Mac OS or an iPod issue. But this is an Apple issue, not just Windows. "Small number", "less than 1%", "less than 25", "and easy to restore" are also mentioned frequently in the notice. With more than eight million iPods shipped in Apple's third quarter we would be interested in a raw number for that 1% effected by this. What's one percent of a few million?…"
* http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/ar…6.html#00000997
> http://www.sophos.com/pressoffice/news/art…with-virus.html
17 October 2006
"…The good news is that if you have kept your anti-virus software up-to-date then your security software should have no trouble detecting it before it can do any harm…"
- http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/ar…6.html#00000999
October 18, 2006
"First McDonald's* and now Apple. Apple Support has a very interesting notice available today. It seems that some of the iPod (video) units available for purchase from September 12th contain the RavMonE.exe virus. More details are available from: http://www.apple.com/support/windowsvirus/ . Also of interest is Apple's framing of this support issue. Note that the notice is located in a sub-folder named "WindowsVirus" rather than "virus". In fact, the words "Windows Virus" appear eight times while the actual name of the virus - RavMonE.exe - is mentioned only twice. Let's be clear, some Apple iPods have shipped with a virus that affects mass storage devices. So it might not be a Mac OS or an iPod issue. But this is an Apple issue, not just Windows. "Small number", "less than 1%", "less than 25", "and easy to restore" are also mentioned frequently in the notice. With more than eight million iPods shipped in Apple's third quarter we would be interested in a raw number for that 1% effected by this. What's one percent of a few million?…"
* http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/ar…6.html#00000997
> http://www.sophos.com/pressoffice/news/art…with-virus.html
17 October 2006
"…The good news is that if you have kept your anti-virus software up-to-date then your security software should have no trouble detecting it before it can do any harm…"