First Mcdonald's And Now Apple Ipod Ships With Virus

deary65

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Apple Support has a very interesting notice available today. It seems that some of the iPod (video) units available for purchase from September 12th contain the RavMonE.exe virus. More details...
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http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/archive-102006.html#00000999

everythingblogcast

It is only 1% of 5.5Gen iPod Videos shipped from 12th September 2006. The 5.5Gen iPod Video are the ones that have better screen blightness and battery life.

Zahc

everythingblogcast wrote:

It is only 1% of 5.5Gen iPod Videos shipped from 12th September 2006. The 5.5Gen iPod Video are the ones that have better screen blightness and battery life.

Even so, I'd be a bit cheesed off if mine fell into the 1%

Zahc

amcluesent

LOL, at Apple's comment - we're disappointed we did this, and also that Microsoft Windows is so vulnerable to viruses. Great spin...

everythingblogcast

its funny how Apple said that. We are sorry we did it and its basiclly Windows fault for being so vulnerable to virus. It means you think that apple does not like their Windows customers.

Mr_Squiddy

everythingblogcast wrote:

its funny how Apple said that. We are sorry we did it and its basiclly Windows fault for being so vulnerable to virus. It means you think that apple does not like their Windows customers.

Apple have consistently shown their disdain for Windows customers by writing sloppy and substandard software. Version 7 of iTunes is a case in point. But then my experience is that they can't do a decent enough job on their own OS. I had the misfortune some years ago to have to support some OS8 and OS9 machines and it was nothing short of dreadful.

Zahc

Mr_Squiddy wrote:

Apple have consistently shown their disdain for Windows customers by writing sloppy and substandard software. Version 7 of iTunes is a case in point. But then my experience is that they can't do a decent enough job on their own OS. I had the misfortune some years ago to have to support some OS8 and OS9 machines and it was nothing short of dreadful.

Oh lord Mr Squiddy, I hope you have your hard hat on:rotfl:
MAC zealots in-coming........


Zahc

sdj25

I am not going to go too much into it, I am more of a MacSeeALot, than a MacZealot but....

It is a mixture of peoples' "faults". If you look over at the Get A Mac page, you will see them talking about: "No Viruses" and "No hunting for drivers" , "awesome out of the box" - and the reason being is that Apple design everything from the ground up. They don't have to configure their programs to work with 1,000,000 configurations of systems - all carrying different DLL's & integrated differently with the registry.

Apple can write their hardware to work with their OS and coding because they have full control over all the groundlevel pieces.

I am not saying MSoft should start creating their own hardware. Although, if they did - I am pretty sure they would get it to work very well with XP / Vista - and we would see much much less issues. However, they would never be able to do it, as they would be branded even more in the press for being "monopolisers".

You also have to look at the Apple Mac's OS and just agree that it is built on a much better set of building blocks.

People are demanding more every day, and windows has had to build on top of shaky ground & patch holes as they go, where as I really feel that Apple made the better choice initially, and this is why they show their superiority today.

deary65

Microsoft slams apple over ipod virus,passing the buck begins!!!
http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/index.cfm?newsid=7378

bingo_bango

Mr_Squiddy wrote:

Version 7 of iTunes is a case in point.

Have to agree. Only upgraded 2 days ago, but it's awful :mad:

I think I'll go back to the last version.