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04-30-2008, 07:31 PM
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| Security/Hacking Mod  Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: USA
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|  An iPod Arrives, With A Virus A word of caution for those of you thinking about buying recertified iPods. Some companies use a third party company to recertify the devices instead of Apple. This has lead to incidents like this where the owner finds a nasty virus on the “recertified” iPod. The iPod came in just a couple of days--but as soon as I unwrapped it and connected it to my Mac at home I got an ominous alert from my usually quiet antivirus software. The iPod, it informed me, contained some virus known as AdobeR.exe. |
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05-01-2008, 01:15 PM
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| Master Techie  Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Ra'anana, Israel
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   | Re: An iPod Arrives, With A Virus By your gadgets first hand 
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05-02-2008, 02:58 AM
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| Re: An iPod Arrives, With A Virus hmmm i've dealt with AdobeR in the wild at my college. myself and S0ULphIRE removed it from all systems we found infected. back then there wasn't info on the net about it  it took a while for us to realise it was propogating to removable drives.
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05-02-2008, 03:45 AM
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| Commander SMod Autobot  Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: In Trotter's crawl space
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| Re: An iPod Arrives, With A Virus Kinda like the iPod that was returned to Wal-Mart and resold with pr0n on it. That was another classic. But sadly was only a local thing...
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05-04-2008, 12:40 AM
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| Re: An iPod Arrives, With A Virus Sorry I just found this. There is a element of risk by buying any storage device 2nd hand, especially when buying of places like ebay or craigslist. But when you buy it from a company that has a good reputation you should receive a good standard of service on the device. That being said if it's a one off I can understand, but companies should always scan the device before it leaves there care.
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05-04-2008, 12:40 AM
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| Re: An iPod Arrives, With A Virus Wow iPod Virus........
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05-05-2008, 03:09 PM
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| Re: An iPod Arrives, With A Virus I thought macs didn't get viruses that is what they say in there adverts
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05-05-2008, 03:17 PM
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 | Re: An iPod Arrives, With A Virus I thought Ipods were the virus?? [/bad joke]
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05-05-2008, 03:22 PM
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| Re: An iPod Arrives, With A Virus Quote:
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05-05-2008, 05:33 PM
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