Posts Tagged ‘ virus ’

New Windows Virus Deletes All Your MP3s

Aug 4th, 2007 | By | Category: Digital Music, iPods & Portable Media Players

Antivirus researchers have identified a new Windows virus, W32/Deletemp3.worm, searches your hard drive and deletes all your MP3s. The virus spreads by copying itself onto any drives on your PC, including removable media and flash drives. If you move the drive to a new computer, it gets infected, too. The virus was discovered July 30th, and [...]



New iPod “Virus” Can’t Infect Your iPod

Apr 5th, 2007 | By | Category: iPods & Portable Media Players, Strange

ZDNet.com reports that Russian anti-virus specialists Kaspersky Lab has discovered what is believed to be the first proof-of-concept virus designed specifically to infect Apple’s iPod devices. Fortunately, the Podloso virus only works on iPods that have the Linux operating system installed on them. The “virus” isn’t even contagious – you have to manually install it [...]