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Russell Mickler, Principal Consultant, has over 17 years of professional experience leading and managing IT organizations.
iPods Shipped with RavMonE.exe Virus
Written on October 18, 2006
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Today, Apple admitted that, since September 12, approximately 1-percent of their video iPods have been shipped with a virus capable of infecting Windows-based PC’s.
RavMonE.exe is a harmful spyware that also goes by other aliases (WORM_SIWEOLA and worm.win32.r.jump.a) that operates like a trojan. It opens up a computer so that other computers can see that the subject computer is vulnerable to attack on the Internet.
Apple says, “What, you worry? Use your anti-virus package to catch and delete it.” And of course, they were quick to point out that RavMonE.exe only affects Windows-PC’s, not Apple’s OS/X Macintosh platform. Go figure…
Those who’ve installed new iPod’s since September 12 would do well by updating their anti-virus definitions and by running a manual scan to catch the problem.
MalcolmReynolds says:
Commented posted on: October 19, 2006
I can’t say that I’m suprised by this news. Companies are constantly shipping product that either has some debilitating defect, or will harm some other hardware once it is connected. Apple needs to fix this with a firmware update or something, and not just tell people “use your anti-virus program to catch the virus”. Thats like someone putting out some product that will burn your house down and their response is “have your home-owners insurance fix the problem”. Completely rediculous!