iPod has an Virus (its Official!)

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Yes..its Official (http://www.apple.com/support/windowsvirus/)

Apple iPod Video (selected model) has an virus in it! :blush:

:no: WOO WOO...Even iPod has Virus!...It sucks me!... :angry:

And in the apple's page, they have listed to do an online scan using "Windows Live Onecare Online scanner!"...Pretty Strange..(but also included other vendors listing!)

More on the link http://www.apple.com/support/windowsvirus/

http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/17/apple-s...-windows-virus/

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First off... The cheek that Apple has for not even taking responsibility of their product (Blaming it on a contractor) :angry:. If it has your brand on it, then you should take responsiblity for the positives and negatives associated.

And then they have the nerve to blame Windows for the virus (When a virus is a 3rd party application - when even on the same page, Apple say that they take no responsibility for 3rd party applications referring to the AntiVirus that they are recommending).

Apple make good products, but I've never liked that snobbish company. I don't know how much more I can hate the company before I say no more to their products. They truely are a snotty little company.

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First off... The cheek that Apple has for not even taking responsibility of their product (Blaming it on a contractor) :angry:. If it has your brand on it, then you should take responsiblity for the positives and negatives associated.

And then they have the nerve to blame Windows for the virus (When a virus is a 3rd party application - when even on the same page, Apple say that they take no responsibility for 3rd party applications referring to the AntiVirus that they are recommending).

Apple make good products, but I've never liked that snobbish company. I don't know how much more I can hate the company before I say no more to their products. They truely are a snotty little company.

i guess .. its a stuck up company that "steals" ideas for there own.

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iMonkey

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Ok, let's get this straight:

The iPod that so many of us own, love and adore does not actually have a virus waiting in the wild, so to speak, ready to attack all of our precious music, videos and whatever else we can be bothered storing on one such iPod.

INSTEAD; *SOME* iPods *ship* with a virus that affects Windows based PC's, something rather different than the title implies.

Therefore, denizens, I conclude that the iPod (called so in the general mass-collective terminology) does not have a virus, and that you are all safe.

(For now... :shiftyninja: )

(Didn't Creative have an issue like this a while back?)

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First off... The cheek that Apple has for not even taking responsibility of their product (Blaming it on a contractor) :angry:. If it has your brand on it, then you should take responsiblity for the positives and negatives associated.

And then they have the nerve to blame Windows for the virus (When a virus is a 3rd party application - when even on the same page, Apple say that they take no responsibility for 3rd party applications referring to the AntiVirus that they are recommending).

Apple make good products, but I've never liked that snobbish company. I don't know how much more I can hate the company before I say no more to their products. They truely are a snotty little company.

First they say it was on the iPods when they left the factory (which has happened to many companies), then they say about Windows (which is just stupid), then they say it was their fault they didn't catch it.

The whole contractor thing was them just explaining how the virus got onto the devices.

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Apple, how desperate are you? Release an iPod that has a virus which only targets your competition and then blame the competition for it!

I'm so tired of these desperate tactics. Take responsibility for your own mistakes and stop blaming Microsoft for your screw up.

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guruparan

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WTF dude? It "sucks you"? :blink:

Yeap..i was frustrated when i heard this news...Did i bought the mp3 player (iPod) with an Virus in it?....Too bad...(that too for a company which speaks "VIRUS" is an alien language for them...(steve jobs doesnt know how much patches are still there surrounding mac os!

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I take you are another that doesn't actually bother to read the storys and deigned to miss the bit where it said they blamed themselves???

of course, that would get in the way of a good rant :rolleyes:

That well may be true for some of the posters above, but Apple should have NEVER included this in their release:

we are upset at Windows for not being more hardy against such viruses,

Very poor business tactics...

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