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"Apple Computer this week warned customers that some Video iPods sold over the past five weeks were shipped with a computer virus capable of infecting computers running Microsoft Windows and exposing them to attacks by hackers.
"Apple said the virus was embedded in less than 1 percent of the Video iPods available for purchase after September 12, 2006. Greg Joswiak, vice president of iPod product marketing at Apple, said the company traced the virus back to a Windows machine used to test iPod software in the manufacturing process."
And I love this next line...
"Joswiak declined to say how many devices were affected, citing the potential impact on investors closely watching the company's earnings reports today. [Italics added.] But he said Apple has corrected the problem and that all video iPods the company is currently shipping are virus-free."
This is just too rich. Not only do they send out a virus ladened product, not only do they just send a warning, and not a recall, but the vice president basically says they care more about stock value and earnings reports than giving the full facts to the public.
Now, Apple isn't the only company to have this happpen to...
"The iPod news comes just days after McDonald's Japan recalled MP3 players it gave away as prizes to customers after learning that the devices shipped with spyware designed to steal sensitive data that users entered at financial and e-commerce Web sites. Last year, multimedia giant Creative acknowledged that roughly 4,000 of the company's Zen Neeon MP3 players shipped with a Windows computer worm embedded inside."
But at least the last two gave either hard numbers or had a recall.
The funny thing is, I'm sure there are people thinking, "Well, the virus originated from a windows PC, so that proves the superiority of Apple."
"Apple said the virus was embedded in less than 1 percent of the Video iPods available for purchase after September 12, 2006. Greg Joswiak, vice president of iPod product marketing at Apple, said the company traced the virus back to a Windows machine used to test iPod software in the manufacturing process."
And I love this next line...
"Joswiak declined to say how many devices were affected, citing the potential impact on investors closely watching the company's earnings reports today. [Italics added.] But he said Apple has corrected the problem and that all video iPods the company is currently shipping are virus-free."
This is just too rich. Not only do they send out a virus ladened product, not only do they just send a warning, and not a recall, but the vice president basically says they care more about stock value and earnings reports than giving the full facts to the public.
Now, Apple isn't the only company to have this happpen to...
"The iPod news comes just days after McDonald's Japan recalled MP3 players it gave away as prizes to customers after learning that the devices shipped with spyware designed to steal sensitive data that users entered at financial and e-commerce Web sites. Last year, multimedia giant Creative acknowledged that roughly 4,000 of the company's Zen Neeon MP3 players shipped with a Windows computer worm embedded inside."
But at least the last two gave either hard numbers or had a recall.
The funny thing is, I'm sure there are people thinking, "Well, the virus originated from a windows PC, so that proves the superiority of Apple."
