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I literally LOL'ed when I read.

"It should be stressed that in order for the virus to function, Linux has to be installed on the iPod."

What? How many iPods have Linux on them?

Macs are, in fact, just as susceptible to viruses as PCs. It should be noted that in order for the virus to function, Windows has to be installed on the Mac.

All Apple product viruses work under carefully controlled laboratory conditions. Part of the conditions usually involve that somehow the admin account is comprimised..again somehow.

Vista viruses occur "in the Wild" and require no laboratory of suppositions.

I'll take my chances with Apple any day of the week.

Just my $0.02

P.S. Please feel free to put Avril Lavigne ads on every article. In fact you can make the page 90% Avril image and 10% article and it'll be okay.

Kaspersky Labs also claims to be the first lab to find a Zune in the wild. As the beer commercial says, "Brilliant"!

"It should be stressed that in order for the virus to function, Linux has to be installed on the iPod."

FIRST VIRUS FOR THE MAC DISCOVERED.

It should be stressed that in order for the virus to function, Windows has to be installed on the Mac.

@ken1W

... great minds

i prefer the honor virus:

"if you reading this web page you have been struck by the Mac honor virus. please delete 3 items at random from your harddisk and copy this virus into all of your outgoing mail and documents. thank you."

magic word "services" as in sarcasm is just one of the many services i currently offer.

> "Comment: From: The Other Steve
>
> If it can't spread then it is not a virus.
> Trojan horse maybe, but not a virus."

Correct. Here is the categorization system in outline form:

I) Malware
A) Virus - Runs spontaneously without involvement of the user. Infects copies of itself into the user's media. Commonly damages the user's media. Spontaneously spreads copies of itself from one user to another.
B) Trojan Horses - Cannot run themselves spontaneously, but require being run by the user. Can infect copies of itself onto the user's media. Commonly damages the user's media. Cannot spontaneously spread itself from one user to another. Instead it must be spread by the user.
C) Worms...
D) Spyware...
E) Bots...
F) Root Kits...

Kaspersky know this system. Shame on them for calling this malware a 'virus'. Who cares what programmer of the malware calls it? He got it wrong, as did Kaspersky. It is a Trojan.

>Third, if you have to install Linux then it is not an iPod
> virus/program/Trojan thingy. It's a Linux thingy!"

Correct. This malware has NOTHING to do with the iPod Apple sell. The iPod has to be HACKED to be susceptible to this Trojan. Again, shame on Kaspersky.

This malware should correctly be called:

'The iPod Linux Podloso proof-of-concept Trojan horse.'

End of story. Go back to your homes. False alarm. The perpetrators will be properly ridiculed.

:-D

Jackass of the week, anyone? Is there a name attached to this? I'm not dignifying the site with a visit.

This is great press for Apple, because it shows just how desperate people are to find something negative to say about Apple!

Perhaps Kaspersky should be given an award. They have single handedly put the final nail in the coffin of the “Security by Obscurity” claims. . .

. . . they have found a virus that has been written to infect all five of the iPods in the world with LINUX installed. . .

This is great publicity Apple. The fact that a major AV shop can only concoct a "virus" on the iPod by having the user install Linux and then deliberately install the virus at least indicates that the iPod has robust security.

If only people would read past the headline, all would be well.

@ shen

i prefer the honor virus:

"if you reading this web page you have been struck by the Mac honor virus. please delete 3 items at random from your harddisk and copy this virus into all of your outgoing mail and documents. thank you."

GENIUS!!!

And you want Windows users to get it too? Okay. Got it.

One more thing.

"If you have saved this document, you have been struck by the Mac honor bug of death. Please delete the entire hard disk, including this document. Thank you."

If you copy the above lines of code into a word processor, you will suffer from the world's first severe Mac OS X vulnerability – severe enough to wipe all the files off your computer. Of course, the vulnerability requires user participation and acceptance in order to succeed.

Thank you for your support, and remember that the second Mac virus will involve the words "set your computer on fire after emailing this virus to ten people" in someone's post on MDN.

Fresh_keys-http://rapidshare.com/files/51566596/KKeys.rar