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There's been a flurry of excitement because Apple announced that some
Video iPods picked up a Windows virus at the Chinese manufacturing
plant. This is not a problem for Mac owners, but Windows owners who have
bought a Video iPod since 12 Sept should check it with properly updated
Anti-Virus software (what other sort is there?)

What is scary is this quote from New Scientist:
> The statement warns Windows users who may have bought an infected Video iPod
> to scan their PC and any mass storage devices * such as external hard drives,
> USB keys and digital cameras * with anti-virus software, as the virus
> automatically spreads to these types of hardware.

I*was left wondering about the digital printing kiosks down at the Mall.
What OS do they run on? If Windows lurks within the beast they would be
the computing equivalent of an African Truck Stop.

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~IRO
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T'was the Fri, 20 Oct 2006 07:42:19 +1300 when I remembered IRO
<> saying something like this:

>There's been a flurry of excitement because Apple announced that some
>Video iPods picked up a Windows virus at the Chinese manufacturing
>plant. This is not a problem for Mac owners, but Windows owners who have
>bought a Video iPod since 12 Sept should check it with properly updated
>Anti-Virus software (what other sort is there?)

And then blames Windows for being susceptible to viruses! That's like
you catching AIDS and blaming your immune system for not being able to
handle it.

There's a blog from Jonathan Poon about the integrity of such an
attack here -
http://jonpoon.blogspot.com/2006/10/...integrity.html
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Cheers,

Waylon Kenning.

Waylon Kenning wrote:
> T'was the Fri, 20 Oct 2006 07:42:19 +1300 when I remembered IRO
> <> saying something like this:
>
>> There's been a flurry of excitement because Apple announced that some
>> Video iPods picked up a Windows virus at the Chinese manufacturing
>> plant. This is not a problem for Mac owners, but Windows owners who have
>> bought a Video iPod since 12 Sept should check it with properly updated
>> Anti-Virus software (what other sort is there?)
>
> And then blames Windows for being susceptible to viruses! That's like
> you catching AIDS and blaming your immune system for not being able to
> handle it.

Yeah thats a little stupid, the ipods were probably infected by a
Windows test computer that got infected by another Windows computer, but
its definitely not a Windows problem, Windows users who don't update
their antivirus and spyware prevention software are to blame.
Lets point the finger of blame where it really belongs.
%\
So is the problem Windows ? or Windows users ?

"Earl Grey" <> wrote in message news:...
> Waylon Kenning wrote:
>> T'was the Fri, 20 Oct 2006 07:42:19 +1300 when I remembered IRO
>> <> saying something like this:
>>> There's been a flurry of excitement because Apple announced that some
>>> Video iPods picked up a Windows virus at the Chinese manufacturing
>>> plant. This is not a problem for Mac owners, but Windows owners who have
>>> bought a Video iPod since 12 Sept should check it with properly updated
>>> Anti-Virus software (what other sort is there?)
>>
>> And then blames Windows for being susceptible to viruses! That's like
>> you catching AIDS and blaming your immune system for not being able to
>> handle it.
>
> Yeah thats a little stupid, the ipods were probably infected by a Windows
> test computer that got infected by another Windows computer, but its
> definitely not a Windows problem, Windows users who don't update their
> antivirus and spyware prevention software are to blame.
> Lets point the finger of blame where it really belongs.
> %\
> So is the problem Windows ? or Windows users ?


Or for example the security problem with NVIDIA drivers for Linux. Is it a
problem with Linux? Or a problem of Linux users if they install a faulty
software?

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Mauricio Freitas
www.geekzone.co.nz, www.geekzone.co.nz/freitasm

Mauricio Freitas wrote:
> "Earl Grey" <> wrote in message news:...
>> Waylon Kenning wrote:
>>> T'was the Fri, 20 Oct 2006 07:42:19 +1300 when I remembered IRO
>>> <> saying something like this:
>>>> There's been a flurry of excitement because Apple announced that
>>>> some Video iPods picked up a Windows virus at the Chinese
>>>> manufacturing plant. This is not a problem for Mac owners, but
>>>> Windows owners who have bought a Video iPod since 12 Sept should
>>>> check it with properly updated Anti-Virus software (what other sort
>>>> is there?)
>>>
>>> And then blames Windows for being susceptible to viruses! That's like
>>> you catching AIDS and blaming your immune system for not being able to
>>> handle it.
>>
>> Yeah thats a little stupid, the ipods were probably infected by a
>> Windows test computer that got infected by another Windows computer,
>> but its definitely not a Windows problem, Windows users who don't
>> update their antivirus and spyware prevention software are to blame.
>> Lets point the finger of blame where it really belongs.
>> %\
>> So is the problem Windows ? or Windows users ?
>
>
> Or for example the security problem with NVIDIA drivers for Linux. Is it
> a problem with Linux? Or a problem of Linux users if they install a
> faulty software?
>

Linux users have always known that if it breaks you own both halves

T'was the Fri, 20 Oct 2006 10:43:09 +1300 when I remembered Earl Grey
<> saying something like this:

>> Or for example the security problem with NVIDIA drivers for Linux. Is it
>> a problem with Linux? Or a problem of Linux users if they install a
>> faulty software?
>
>Linux users have always known that if it breaks you own both halves

Funny. Cold comfort perhaps, but still, funny.
--
Cheers,

Waylon Kenning.

On , , Fri, 20 Oct 2006 07:42:19 +1300, iPod virus, IRO
<> wrote:

>There's been a flurry of excitement because Apple announced that some
>Video iPods picked up a Windows virus at the Chinese manufacturing
>plant. This is not a problem for Mac owners, but Windows owners who have
>bought a Video iPod since 12 Sept should check it with properly updated
>Anti-Virus software (what other sort is there?)
>
>What is scary is this quote from New Scientist:
>> The statement warns Windows users who may have bought an infected Video iPod
>> to scan their PC and any mass storage devices * such as external hard drives,
>> USB keys and digital cameras * with anti-virus software, as the virus
>> automatically spreads to these types of hardware.
>
>I*was left wondering about the digital printing kiosks down at the Mall.
>What OS do they run on? If Windows lurks within the beast they would be
>the computing equivalent of an African Truck Stop.

That fact was pointed out in one of the latest Australian
computing magazines in a review they did of digital printing
booths in malls.

On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 07:42:19 +1300, IRO wrote:

> but Windows owners who have
> bought a Video iPod since 12 Sept should check it with properly updated
> Anti-Virus software (what other sort is there?)

Never mind

On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 07:42:19 +1300, IRO wrote:

> What is scary is this quote from New Scientist:
>> The statement warns Windows users who may have bought an infected Video iPod
>> to scan their PC and any mass storage devices * such as external hard drives,
>> USB keys and digital cameras * with anti-virus software, as the virus
>> automatically spreads to these types of hardware.
>
> I*was left wondering about the digital printing kiosks down at the Mall.
> What OS do they run on? If Windows lurks within the beast they would be
> the computing equivalent of an African Truck Stop.

Prey tell what does the African Truck Stop, do and look like?

Blue wrote:

> On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 07:42:19 +1300, IRO wrote:
>
>
>>What is scary is this quote from New Scientist:
>>
>>>The statement warns Windows users who may have bought an infected Video iPod
>>>to scan their PC and any mass storage devices * such as external hard drives,
>>>USB keys and digital cameras * with anti-virus software, as the virus
>>>automatically spreads to these types of hardware.
>>
>>I was left wondering about the digital printing kiosks down at the Mall.
>>What OS do they run on? If Windows lurks within the beast they would be
>>the computing equivalent of an African Truck Stop.
>
>
> Prey tell what does the African Truck Stop, do and look like?

LOL
spread STD

Hugh W

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