Thursday, October 19, 2006

iPods Ship With Virus

Microsoft AV Head Criticizes Apple
By Nate Mook, BetaNews
October 19, 2006, 4:32 PM
The individual at Microsoft responsible for making sure product releases ship without viruses lashed back at Apple Wednesday, after the company chided Microsoft for having an insecure operating system within an advisory regarding iPods that shipped with a virus.
Apple apologized Tuesday for the roughly 1 percent of video iPods that shipped after September 12, 2006 with the mass-storage virus Win32.RJump.a. "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," the company said.
The remark drew the ire of security professionals and Microsoft employees alike. Jonathan Poon handles the release virus scanning system for the Redmond company, and shot back at Apple in a blog posting....read more: here