Beware : The First Apple Ipod Virus

Kaspersky Lab, a Russian company based in Massachusetts recently announced that they found a virus on an Apple iPod. The company itself have a very few details and said that this virus would not be very harmful to the people using iPods. They even said that this virus will only be active on a linux installed iPods and will only affect if someone puts the file in the iPod disk first. The virus “Podloso” shows its existence when u first use your iPod. It asks user to install Linux in the disk and then scans the disk to infect all .elf files. If user tried to run these files it shows a message “You are infected with Oslo the first iPodLinux Virus.”

Apple Ipods get Affected by Podloso

According to Kaspersky Lab, the first virus Podloso which is designed to affect iPods is an early awareness to the Apple Company to take action on it and try to provide some security measures even though this virus does not pose any threat to an average people who owns iPod. If the user installs the virus then it installs itself to the folder containing demo version of the program.

Podloso is a proof of concept virus i.e. it just demonstrate that it is possible to infect a particular platform and don’t do any harm to the device. The people who created virus have successfully demonstrated that it is theoretically possible to create malicious programs for such devices, Kaspersky Labs reports. And now this is to people who use iPods believe that “iPods are not 100% safe”.

References:

• Mercury Web
• BBC
• CNBC