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Posted on 11 May 2007 at 11:57

Davey Winder searches for aliens in the enterprise while wondering whether anyone's listening when it comes to the AUP debate.

But a little more probing revealed that even if you were the sort of mad Linux hacker that's tempted to attack a perfectly good, expensive iPod in this way, then the chances of you being stupid enough to install the virus into the program demo folder and then make the conscious decision to launch it are fairly remote. The final nail in the coffin of this particular piece of hype is the fact that if you somehow got to the point of running Podloso, the payload is a scan of your iPod hard disk for executable and linking files, which it then prevents from running and pops up an "aren't I clever" message instead. The thing can't even spread because it has to be physically saved into iPod memory in order to "infect" the target.

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