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internetnews.com: First ‘Real’ iPod Virus Rears Its Head

Written By
AP
Andy Patrizio
Apr 7, 2007

“It just goes to show nothing is safe. Late last year, some
TomTom GPS devices were infected with a pair of low-grade Windows
viruses. The iPod also found itself infected with a similar
low-risk virus late last year as well.

“But neither of those two were a threat to the device or users.
Both viruses got onto the machines during the manufacturing process
and would not run on the device’s native operating system. However,
a newly discovered virus for the iPod does indeed run on the
iPod…”

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AP

Andy Patrizio

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