{"id":550569,"date":"2006-10-19T07:34:11","date_gmt":"2006-10-19T07:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/550569-new-ipods-hit-by-computer-virus.html"},"modified":"2006-10-19T07:34:11","modified_gmt":"2006-10-19T07:34:11","slug":"new-ipods-hit-by-computer-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/550569-new-ipods-hit-by-computer-virus.html","title":{"rendered":"New iPods hit by computer virus"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apple<\/a> said a computer virus branded RavMonE.exe had infected Microsoft software installed in less than one percent of the video iPod<\/a> MP3 players made available for sale after September 12.<\/font> <\/p>\n

"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," Apple said in a release. <\/font><\/p>\n

Macintosh computers along with iPod nano and shuffle MP3 players were immune to the virus, which exploits Windows operating systems, according to Apple. Commonly available anti-virus programs should vanquish the virus.<\/font> <\/p>\n

As of Wednesday, Apple reported receiving fewer than 25 reports of problems with infections.<\/font> <\/p>\n

"I am incredibly shocked and a bit angry that Apple would let this slip through," a buyer of an infected iPod wrote in an online chat forum.<\/font> <\/p>\n

"I thought of calling them, but I fixed it on my own already. So the answer to ‘Do you want a new iPod sir?’ would be ‘No thanks’."<\/font> <\/p>\n

Measures were taken to insure that video iPods were virus-free before being shipped to stores, according to Apple, which is based in Cupertino, California.<\/font> <\/p>\n

Apple advised video iPod owners to conduct full virus scans of their Windows-based computer systems and interacting devices such as digital cameras.<\/font> <\/p>\n

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Apple Computer warned that a Windows computer virus had wormed its way into some video iPods before they hit store shelves. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-550569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550569"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}