iPods ship with a virus

Interestingly I had an attempt to infect my laptop with the same virus and autodetect deleted it. I got it on my 1GB usb disk when I passed a presentation to a sound engineers laptop in Turkey and it infected my disk, so when I put it back in my laptop it attempted infection. So be careful who you give your USB disks, we use them all the time for transferring data and in my case presentation material..

Apple has posted a warning that a small number of fifth-generation, video-capable iPods shipped carrying a Windows virus.

Apple states, “We recently discovered that a small number - less than 1% - of the Video iPods available for purchase after September 12, 2006, left our contract manufacturer carrying the Windows RavMonE.exe virus. This known virus affects only Windows computers, and up to date anti-virus software which is included with most Windows computers should detect and remove it. So far we have seen less than 25 reports concerning this problem. The iPod nano, iPod shuffle and Mac OS X are not affected, and all Video iPods now shipping are virus free. As you might imagine, we are upset at Windows for not being more hardy against such viruses, and even more upset with ourselves for not catching it.”