IPODs are dangerous to more than your ears!
mid-morning on Tuesday, the 3rd of October 2006 by Chad
Just a friendly warning:
A 30gb black Apple IPOD, purchased by me on the first of October from a big box store (Costco), factory sealed, contained the ravmone.exe virus and its supporting files on the drive.
Newer versions of antivirus software (both Symantec and NAV) did detect the virus. On a test box I disabled the AV software and allowed it to infect the system, and confirmed that this is the case.
A few posts in the apple forums has other people reporting the problem.
The details on the virus is here: http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_139985.htm and is known to McAfee as W32/RJump.worm.
This virus is also known as:
- Backdoor.Rajump (Symantec)
- W32/Jisx.A.worm (Panda)
- W32/RJump-C (Sophos)
- W32/RJump.A!worm (Fortinet)
- Win32/RJump.A (ESET)
- Win32/RJump.A!Worm (CA)
- Worm.RJump.A (BitDefender)
- Worm.Win32.RJump.a (Kaspersky)
- Worm/Rjump.E (Avira)
- WORM_SIWEOL.B (TrendMicro)
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October 20th, 2006 at 9:18 am
So viruses strike iPods too? How big of a problem is this?
October 20th, 2006 at 9:31 am
Its not that they strike ipods per se, its that ipods are carriers. You plug in your ipod into a windows machine, and it will autoexec to infect your system.
Apparently Apple is blaming Microsoft and their factory in China for the problem. L00sers…