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Bogus iPod Virus

So there's this company, Kaspersky, and they say they've discovered the first iPod virus[1]. Oh dear! Everyone panic, alarums and excursions, and all that, right? Not.

This is about Podloso a proof-of-concept virus that infects iPods (rather than using iPods as a distribution mechanism). And it goes like this: First, you have to install Linux on your iPod. Next, you have to install the virus to your Linux-capable iPod. Then you have to launch the virus, because "Podloso cannot be launched automatically without user involvement". Once launched, it infects all executable .elf files with a lame message.

So here's TUAW take on the matter: if you own an iPod and you run Linux on it? Don't install the virus, 'kay?

[Via TechDirt]

[1]They're not counting the Windows virus that accidently hitched a ride on some otherwise innocent 5.5G iPods.

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