Well about a week ago I bought a brand new black video iPod from the Apple store here in Boston. Retail packaging, unopened, etc. Well I just went to double click on the iPod in My Computer for the first time, and NOD32 goes apeshit on me.
I started to get red flashing everywhere, notifying me of a virus, ravmon.exe, trying to access the system. Further research led me to an Apple thread here along with some information on the virus here .
Luckily it seems my trusty NOD32 caught it, and I removed all traces of the virus from the iPod's hard drive before it had a chance to do any harm.
I am incredibly shocked and a bit angry that Apple would let this slip through. Clearly it has been happening to people all over the US, as shown in the thread above. I figure I am one of the lucky ones who did not get infected at all, I can only imagine how many people are, from brand-spankin-new iPods.
What do you think I should do about it? 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". I'd call even to just let them know about it, but it seems to be a pretty active topic on their forums.
I'm just so shocked that they'd let something like this happen, to ship their ipods straight from the factory, with viruses included.
I started to get red flashing everywhere, notifying me of a virus, ravmon.exe, trying to access the system. Further research led me to an Apple thread here along with some information on the virus here .
Luckily it seems my trusty NOD32 caught it, and I removed all traces of the virus from the iPod's hard drive before it had a chance to do any harm.
I am incredibly shocked and a bit angry that Apple would let this slip through. Clearly it has been happening to people all over the US, as shown in the thread above. I figure I am one of the lucky ones who did not get infected at all, I can only imagine how many people are, from brand-spankin-new iPods.
What do you think I should do about it? 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". I'd call even to just let them know about it, but it seems to be a pretty active topic on their forums.
I'm just so shocked that they'd let something like this happen, to ship their ipods straight from the factory, with viruses included.