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| by Stephen Withers | |
| Friday, 06 April 2007 | |
  
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Podloso must be deliberately installed and run by the user (so it's probably a Trojan rather than a virus, but what's in a name?), and then it alters all the executable .elf files it can find so when they are run they display a message on the screen which says "You are infected with Oslo the first iPodLinux Virus". "Podloso has no malicious payload, and does not present a real threat; it simply demonstrates that it is, theoretically possible to create malicious programs for such devices," said Kaspersky officials. So someone has written a program that can modify files - should we be impressed? The downside is that claims like Kaspersky's are likely to renew calls for iPods to be banned from workplaces because of some vague security risk.{moscomment} |
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