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First Mcdonald's, Now Apple Ipod Ships With Virus

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Posted 18 October 2006 - 08:45 AM

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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...
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Posted 19 October 2006 - 07:37 AM

Microsoft slams Apple over iPod virus

McAfee has updated its free Stinger malware detector and destroyer to include signatures for both RJump and QQPass.
http://vil.nai.com/vil/stinger/default.aspx

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Posted 19 October 2006 - 01:23 PM

What on God's green Earth is going on?! :thumbsup: How the heck are all these viruses getting on a product before it ships!!!

Note to self: don't buy an mp3 player.

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Posted 19 October 2006 - 06:03 PM

View Postrms4evr, on Oct 19 2006, 11:23 AM, said:

What on God's green Earth is going on?! :thumbsup: How the heck are all these viruses getting on a product before it ships!!!

Note to self: don't buy an mp3 player.


Seeing as they are password stealing trojans, they have a crooked employee on their hands.
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