Apple warned customers this past Tuesday of a shipment of iPods, the leading digital music player, has been infected with a Windows virus. A small number of iPods that were created after September 12th, 2006, have a nice surprise for users in the form of the RavMonE virus.
Apple claims that there have only been 25 reports of this happening, but many customers might not find the virus right away. Of course, in proper form, Apple made a statement about Microsoft and they weren’t nice about it, “As you might imagine, we are upset at Windows for not being more hardy against such viruses, and even more upset at ourselves for not catching it.”
Actually, they did catch it. They caught a virus and they have offered help in removing it on their Web site for users that aren’t properly covered by anti-virus software. Many software companies are now reminding customers to scan storage devices and removable hardware for viruses periodically to stay safe.
They have connected the virus name with the program RAV Anti-Virus which is normally RavMonE.exe but in this case it is malware…typically a hacker will name a virus or malware using popular .exe files to gain access to systems otherwise protected. Naive users will download it, thinking if it’s named correctly it must be the right file, and become infected.
Mobile viruses are on the way. No more can you feel safe using mobile devices without some kind of protection. I imagine the software companies are picking up on this issue and developing all sorts of new ways to combat it. I, for one, hope they hit it hard and work to avoid future issues of infection.
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