New Apple breakthrough: Virus iPod
Apple shipped some video iPods with a computer virus, the company said on its tech support site, Reuters reports.
Less than one percent of Video iPods were carrying the RavMonE.exe virus, which attacks Windows. While Apple wouldn't name the contractor responsible for the slip-up, the company didn't miss an opportunity to take a shot at Microsoft.
"As you might imagine, we are upset at Windows for not being more hardy against such viruses, and even more upset with ourselves for not catching it," Apple said on its Web site.
Apparently there is some murmurings that Apple intentionally infected customers in order to make Microsoft look bad. That's ridiculous, of course. But the incident comes on the heels of an infection of 10,000 non-Apple MP3 players that McDonald's gave away last week in a promotion, Bithika Khargarhia notes. Is nothing sacred?