Some 5.5 gen iPods ship with Windows virus

"...and even more upset with ourselves for not catching it."

It seems like you are doing the most spinning here, as they put most of the blame on themselves.

Viral Marketing from Apple, in its lastest form :-)

http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/archive-102006.html#00000997

The same problem happened with McDonalds and their MP3 player promotion with Coke. Except, all of them had the trojan and it was stealing passwords. :)

i remember getting a virus of an AOL Install disk many years ago, say '99. i remember being amazed - how the hell did that happen - trawled the web and found out that it happens all the time.

same old windows problems, sad. its not like Apple MADE the virus., it IS like Microsoft didn't ship windows with Antivirus until it was waa-y too late. does vista come with Anti-Virus built in? well, i don't care anyway.

Cheap shot from Apple to say that Windows shouldn't be susceptable to worms like this. I'm disappointed. It's one thing to mock Windows viruses in ads, but it's another to ship them out even by mistake. This should have been a time for humble pie, not jokes and cheap shots.
Saying what they did only promotes the 'Mac users are smug' syndrome and leads to cigarettes being poked into eyes.

Reading reports on the internet suggest that the machine used to make the iPods was runing Windows, and infeced the iPods during the manufacturing process.

I wouldn't point the finger at apple right away on this one. From reading a few apple discussion threads about it, I have a feeling the virus is one that was present in Windows BEFORE the iPod was connected! It's a virus that then goes on to infect any removable storage device attached.

Number 7:
A Mac can format a disk to FAT32.

Still I'm with Number 2. No such thing as bad publicity and this is a prefect time to be bashing Windoze as the Vista releases get better and nearer to being on the shelves.

Jootec from Mars, It's really quite simple. The iPod has to be formatted as FAT32 in order for Windows boxes to be able to read/write to them. How else does one format a FAT32 file system other than with Windows. OK, that's not entirely true, you can format FAT32 with Linux too I think.

However, it's simply a matter of the overseas manufacturing company having a virus on a device that formats and installs the software on the iPod HD's.

Ironically, if Apple had never opened the iPod up to Windows users, this would have never happened. They would be formatted as HFS+ and that would be the end of that.

This is going to run and run...!